 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosel here it's another cold December day here in Jerusalem I'm just on the shareover promenade overlooking the city of Jerusalem amazing place today some exercise I'm going to go today for a walk down into Abu Tor which is one of the mixed Arabic and Jewish neighborhoods in the city one of very few of them it's actually mixed mostly in the area as you kind of go into it just by Derech Heron which means an English Heron Road and then as you go deeper in it becomes a mostly Palestinian Arabic neighborhood as you go down the hill so I'm going to walk into there for a few minutes just to give anyone curious an idea for what it looks like inside going to check out the shareover promenade and also the feel bet which is a really interesting venue here in Abu Tor thank you for watching if you want to get more videos or you've any recommendations for places I should check out in Jerusalem please leave me a comment and subscribe thanks for watching just walking here into uh Abu Tor Abu Tor is one of the mixed neighborhoods in Jerusalem it is called in Hebrew Givat Hananiah which is why you'll see signs in the same area for both Givat Hananiah and Abu Tor so Abu Tor is partially mixed and then in other parts it is more or less fully Arab sometimes our clash is so I'm using for the first time today the footpath navigation app which I'm uh super excited to be finally trying so here is yes planet and we're now walking down hopefully haven't already gone off course maybe we have there's actually next to yes planet up here there's a really cool place called feel bet it's a sort of coexistence style bar um they have events on Wednesdays Thursdays you can see off in the hill there there's a UN flag flying that is the United Nations compound where UNSO is located and various other UN missions UNSO stands for United Nations Treaty Supervision Organization you also have here UNDOF UNIFIL and UNFIL these are all actually technically all different missions I used to know a guy here serving with the Irish army which was quite cool I met him through an Irish embassy event and he very graciously took my now wife and I up to a tour but usually can't get into government house it's close to the public so that is what is just up there a little bit can't go very far in Jerusalem so I'm seeing stray Jerusalem cats it's just kind of part of the scenery here and this where we're going back up towards the loop round this is in the direction of Derikhevron which means an English Hebron road and there's a road running parallel to it called Derikh Beit Lechem which means Bethlehem road Bethlehem in Hebrew is Beit Lechem which means the house of bread and in Arabic it's Beit Lahem which means the house of meat so there's a small tidbit so I'm just going to go up now here and do a loop and we'll go down into Abutor so this road's here should be somewhat back on Rouge here going down Naomi Street into Abutor and this is a mixed neighborhood in Jerusalem that is partially Jewish and partially partially mixed Arabic and Jewish and then it's partially just Arabic and you can actually see if you're tuned to the local environment you can see there's a Mashiach flag there yellow flags that's certainly a Jewish house and then the architecture is a little bit different as well but as we go deeper down we'll be able to see more get a better sense for what the demographics are here and there's some really really amazing views so this is the Cherover promenade which I did a video of before and as you can see here it's like totally empty this is really actually an underutilized public outdoor resource in my opinion in Jerusalem so this little path here you're seeing in front of me that'll actually loop all the way around to the Tayelet which is much better known some people don't know that actually continues down here and what's interesting about this area as well hopefully won't fall off this rocky crevice is that there's a little forest at the bottom here and there's also a monastery so just up the top of that hill there is where yes planet's located this is a uh cinema complex it's open on Saturday so during the weekday there's not so much going on but if you come up here on the weekend you'll see lots of people because there are in Jerusalem it's not exclusively religious so you can see here there's a sign in in Arabic and there's an abutor sign so we're coming down into here now and these in Jerusalem these are like the official signs you see the blue and white sign here these are the official signs of tally when you're coming into a neighborhood so now we know we're coming into the official demarcated abutor sign here about the forest area we'll just keep walking down a little bit and we'll see what we will find and this is really interesting I want to stop here for a second to show you guys this view if you ever wonder how close Jerusalem is to the desert you can see that on a map I think I calculated the distances like from this point eight kilometers so what you can see here in the distance well you can see someone's patio you can see the separation barrier and I'm going to do a walk out there soon um those you can see a minaret of a mosque on the other side of separation barrier you can see some tall buildings again on the other side those would be in abudis and I'm just going to point with my finger in case it's not visible just in the center there you can see desert so it's literally Jerusalem is eight kilometers or thereabouts from the Judean desert the city doesn't extend quite to the desert but you don't have to drive very far right towards the dead sea in order to get there so it's really almost slapping on the desert it's a desert town almost so we're just going into abutor here and you can see that green sign in the distance is for klalit so klalit is one of the four health companies in israel the kopot holim the health funds and they exist in east jr but that sign says klalit in arabic so this is kind of uh if you spend time on the ground in jr you kind of just come to know when you're in arabic neighborhoods and mixed neighborhoods and jewish neighborhoods one of the features of the arabic neighborhoods is that dude they tend to be in black so we're just coming here now down the road a little bit and this is i guess this is hamakafad street this is the local klalit clinic in abutor and we're just ascending down the hill here we can see in the distance the hills i'm going to stop and take some photos and you can see now we're in the arabic part of abutor so everything is pretty much in arabic so it's incredible how close in jr these communities are you have strictly orthodox jews living literally you know 100 meters up the road from devight muslims you can see there is muslims here in the streets sometimes is a scene of clashes between the arabic residents here and jewish residents but usually it's pretty pretty quiet i don't think there's a whole lot of stuff down here there are other places like wadi al joe's where people go into more this is the more famous i don't think abutor itself is particularly well known but we'll just go a little further to see what's down here on the road this is here al hara el shakia and there's a playground here i'm gonna see if you can see some more views looking down the mountain top the jewslam municipality has been accused frequently of under under investing in east jr so this area doesn't look so bad but definitely there's sort of this invisible barrier almost between west and east when you start going into east jr properly deep in what i'll be doing soon you really start to notice a kind of disparity in terms of rubbish collection you can see there's just some garbage strewn across here and that is a complicated dynamic because of the fact that sometimes when the jewslam municipality attempts to render services here they are met with violent resistance so it's not such a clean cut issue and it is a reflection of the fact that this is a city basically contested by two different people so this is a mosque you can see that's the minaret of the mosque here so at nighttime in east jr it's all dotted with green lights around the mosques so when you're looking at nighttime over this neighborhood and more stuff here coming off