 Okay, we've just arrived into Matula and according to ways this is sort of like the center of town just to the right of us here There is the Bedamot Zah, which means the community hall. There's a Khalid Which is one of the national health funds in Israel some signage here about the first five homes The local Arab style Matula on the map looks like a nothing place I mean it is the northernmost village in Israel, but when you actually get up here, there's a surprisingly Decent amount of stuff. There's a few art galleries center of Matula or Downtown Matula you could say and this is the second time I've been up here You can see here. There's a You know hotels may be a bit generous, but some kind of accommodation the Alaska in hotel I guess because it's so cold up up here in the winter and Where we're looking now north Just bring the camera down a bit for that's looking into Lebanon hotel Alaska in here The historical name of this hotel is Shalegh Alevanon the first hotel built in Matula constructed in 1911 She'd love to stay up here Very place to stay I'd say if you're doing some skiing in Mount Hermon, which we just came back from You can see there's a synagogue here a shul with Knesset There's a bit of life going on up here, so this is Matula the north of Israel and we're going to try get some Sandwiches or Some other kind of food up here Always amazed me that all these kind of Israeli institutions exist all over the country. They only is the biggest bank You can see the little bank all the way up here north Clalis as I mentioned help is a health fund to a more Jew and La Shuf I've explained before that for reasons that are not clear to me. La Shuf is actually quite big here So it looks like you can get your La Shuf here Very picturesque this place Matula Walking towards the border, which is at the end of the street Passing some more hotels. As he said, there's quite a lot of things to see in Matula another Institution that exists pretty much no matter where you go in Israel is Doar Yisrael the sometimes maligned National Postal Service. This is a little building on Harishonim 29 in Matula. They've got their PO box PO boxes over there So you can actually rent a PO box even if you live in Matula Nice views there as we're just about 330 here. So the Sun is starting to go down It is the winter. So we're trying to get as much sightseeing in as early as we can during the day Not sure how busy all these places would be generally, but clearly the whole you know COVID situation has caused kind of a downturn in Occupancy rates in hotel nations hotels nationwide. So I'm sure probably wouldn't be this empty. This place is like completely Breft of customers. We're actually just a bit as far down on the streets. We can go we're gonna hit the Border fence in a second. They'll make a video of that. Bus connections to Kiryat Shimonit, which we might visit on this trip. That's kind of the northernmost city in Israel a few things to see there too and look at those beautiful views again of the hills You can see how close on is from where I'm standing because if you see center of frame here You can actually see the Palestinian flag in the center next to I think it's a Lebanese flag or maybe even a yellow flag of Hezbollah. This is on Hirishoneem Street So it's just towards the very very end and The hill and that billboard you're seeing again in the center of the frame here. That's already in Lebanon as is this road There's a road that literally runs alongside the border and the border fence is just in front of us here and likewise all these houses in the distance are actually already in Lebanon and even that the traffic there you're seeing coming across that rose that's already in Lebanon The border fence as he said literally comes around the village. What's interesting about Matula is that all the buildings here both serve official modern purposes. This is the Rabanurth building which got Rabanurth and you can see it looks like it's open right now Just right next to it's there. There's a sign talking about the teacher's house and explaining how Baron Rachild and his officials believed that educating the children of Matula was of the utmost importance So pretty much this whole street Hirishoneem which seems to be like the main street all has all the houses here have historic significance