 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I've done a few videos on this channel today about my various border spotting escapades here in Israel. I've kind of had a fascination with borders ever since I was a kid. I went to Nicosia in Cyprus, which has a big and very prominent border running through it. And since then borders have kind of been of interest to me. They're also a good way to explore the kind of peripheral parts of Israel that folks often otherwise don't visit. If you are by any chance also interested in borders, check out my videos on Hunan Castle in the north of Israel, which is a really good place to see the Lebanese border, just about as close as you can get as a civilian, because that's considered a very, very tense hostile border. So the army for very good reasons doesn't let you go too close to the actual border, but you can see it. And you can also see it from Matullah, the northernmost town in Israel. You can get really, really up close to the fence there. So closely, you can see houses, cars and even his full of flags on the Lebanese side of the border. So it really makes an impression about how small this part of the world is. The one border I haven't done much exploration of is Israel's border with Egypt, which is, of course, Israel's southern border. It's a border that was fortified by a big fence. A number of years ago, and it's probably best known in Israel as, unfortunately, being the border through which there is a lot of human trafficking and drug trafficking less so since they built a big fence on it. But that is the border. It's located along the desert, literally. So it's a desert border with desert on both sides of it. And I heard from friends there is a road you can drive on during special occasions, let's say, when the army allows civilian traffic. And that is called Route 10 in Hebrew Kvish Esser. And I wanted to just do the short video for those who are thinking of doing this just to give a little bit of info in English, because there are lots of videos in Hebrew, mostly a few in English, driving on the border. But I wanted to just point folks in the right direction if you're interested in this sort of thing for an expedition. So the resources I found are really mostly in Hebrew. So you should, if you are interested in doing this and knowing when it's accessible, type into Google Kvish Esser and you will get a number of informational resources like this one from Negev Tours. This is a this is a crazy video. And this is showing what it is. It's basically a narrow road, typically used. It's every border in Israel, whether it's the Lebanese border or the Jordanian border has a road or the Gaza border or the de facto border with the West Bank typically has an army only road right next to the border. Typically, you can't go there as a civilian. There's signs saying army only. So Kvish Esser is one of those roads. You can see it's a little narrow track right by the border friends. But unlike the other borders of Israel, they army, I guess, because it's a relatively calm border, given that there is a peace treaty with Egypt. They do let civilians drive on it on specific dates. So there is lots of quite a decent amount of info about it here in Hebrew. They do warn that there aren't like gas stations for and is quite a long stretch of road through the desert. So you want to make sure you have a full tank of gas before going there. And you also need to check the dates. It's open in advance. So by searching for Kvish Esser, you should find these dates. These are the dates that the border road is open for, I believe, yeah, twenty twenty two and they give you a little elevation guide as well, as well as a phone number to call for the army department. So the deal is that you can drive on it during the dates. But if it's not in the dates, you either can't go or you have to ask specific permission for the army. I've no idea whether they give out these like exceptions easily. But there is a phone number there that you can contact. And they do actually answer the phone. I've called them and they'll even confirm the open dates with you as well. So they're pretty helpful. Here is another blog with some cool photos of the border road Kvish Esser. You can see an Egyptian army post on the Egyptian side of the border there. They're pretty distinctive looking as opposed to the IDF post. They have like different coloring and all that. And you can see it's just a little narrow road there with the border fence right in front of it. What else? Now the route of Kvish Esser, just for those curious, I'm going to do a little bit of a Google touring here. And just just to see, show you where it goes, because they don't always open the whole road at one time. So sometimes it's sectioned, so it's useful to know the geography. So this is a last in the south of Israel. This is Tabba border, land border crossing going into Sinai, which is an interesting experience to cross there. And coming up northbound from Elat, you have Route 12. You actually have to kind of zoom in to see where Route 10 starts, right? It's this little white road here and there's a junction here. I'm sure it has a name. I'm not quite sure what the name is, but you can see 12 forks off to 10. And 10 you really have to zoom in to be able to even see the road because it's just a little dirt track, essentially. 10 then begins to hug the border heading westward. Now, if you turn on a navigation layer, we might be able, it might be a little bit easier to see and you can see that it's a desert. And then it continues all the way north, north, north, north, north. You can see Route 10 here and I'm going to zoom out a bit so this doesn't take forever. The only really town there's a monument here. The first town you're going to hit is Nitsana, which should be coming into view. And there's a road on the Egyptian side of the border as well. You can see the Taba Rafa Road. Rafa is in the Gaza Strip. So it comes a little bit away from the border. There's a little bit of kind of skirting and then we're right back to the border itself. Nitsana, I believe there is a land border there, a land border crossing, but it's not in regular use. So Taba is for commercial goods. Taba these days is the only land border crossing between Israel and Gaza. Here we go. And here is Nitsana. So that's the only really sort of notable town on the Israeli side. I don't think there's really much on the Egyptian side. And then if we can continue further west, north, yeah, northwest, just for a little bit longer, you'll eventually hit the fence with the Gaza Strip. This is the Gaza Strip and Keren Hashalom. And at this point, 10 ends and it turns into right two, three, two going north along the Gaza border. And this is a checkpoint here. So you can continue past this past this junction. So that is a return for those interested in a bit of less typical off the beaten track exploration in Israel. If you are interested in doing this, you should I use your Hebrew and put in 10 into Google and then make sure that you check the dates. That it's open. If you want to double check, you can call the army. Or if you're looking for permission to go in during during something else, check the army and pay attention to all those notifications regarding the fuel, because probably the last thing you want to happen is to run out of petrol or gas while you're on a tiny army patrol road in the middle of the desert, in the middle of the summer. That does not sound like fun to me. If you're thinking about doing this expedition, I hope this was useful. I am doing this expedition again at a unspecified point in the future. And I will be posting some videos from the little trip. Thank you guys for watching more videos for me on the usual miscellany of subjects coming soon to this YouTube channel.