 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I am here today on the steep Moshe Baram Road. I'm just about to take a right turn on to D'Arch of Rhone, Hebron Road. And what I thought to do, what I thought I would do today because I was in the area running in errands, I thought I'd do the walk I did in the summer which was going south towards the crossing with Bethlehem crossing checkpoint 300 But what I do instead because the scenery right there is really nice. I would take a left turn and scurrp by the entrance to Harchal Ma, which is a little bit over the green line. In fact, I will make a comment when I'm passing the green line itself. As I did the last time, there's really nothing there. It's just a line on the map. The high rises we're seeing in front of us are located on D'Arch of Rhone. Towards the end of the Arnona neighborhood in South Jerusalem. This is all South Jerusalem here and once I get over this hilly stretch, turning right, I'm going to stop talking for a minute to catch my breath. Throw on a face mask because although this is a beautiful walk, it is running right next to a major traffic artery. So this is one thing I hope that when COVID finally ends or at least becomes an endemic. One thing I'm looking forward to maybe seeing stick around is wearing face masks in certain circumstances because it's a big thing in Eastern cultures, not so much in the West. And as an asthmatic, I find my breathing is much much better if I'm going on a walk or jog like this. When I stick a mask on my face to KN95 to clean up the air a bit. So just to the left, here would be Ramat Rachele. In fact, you can see it there up in the hill, which is a kibbutt on the periphery of Jerusalem. There's a hotel there with a fitness center. In fact, if I were to take this road, I could get into it. We're seeing those blue and white buses running in two directions. The ones traveling opposite me traveling southbound are running into Jerusalem. And the ones traveling on the my side of the road are running to Bethlehem. As well as that, this road leads to the main transit into Gusha Tzion, which is called Kvisham in a road. The highway that goes through the tunnels, because it actually passes under Bejala around Bethlehem. So that's why it's called as such. We're just passing there Ramat Rachele. I finally got right into I actually ended up not fixing my phone. I ended up just using an older phone. I'm going to buy a new one. So I need to have a functional display now, which is nice. This now is looking westward as I turn the camera to the right. And the turn off, the last turn off here is going towards Bates of Fafa, which is like the last Arab neighborhood in South Jerusalem, following that there is Gilo and also Har Gilo. As I continue along this road, there'll be a couple of things worth pointing out. There's a memorial that I hope we will pass, should be on this side of the road. There's also the Mar Elias Monastery. Clearly because I'm travelling south in the sun it's setting. The sun's in the camera a little bit. But as I turn off it should be a little bit easier to see. So this supermarket complex on the left, I believe is already part of Ramat Rachele. We can already see some open ground here on the left. You can walk both directions on the street as I showed in my video on the summer. This road, by the way, will be running into Ramat Rachele. What I was about to say though, it's possible to walk both directions on this road as I showed in the summer. You can walk all the way to the checkpoint with Bates of Fafa and Checkpoint 300. So if you're able to enter Bates of Fafa legally as a tourist, whatever, it's totally viable. It's just not that heavily populated as you can see both in this direction and on the other side of the road leading into Jerusalem. There's really no one else walking at this particular hour of the day. Those Israeli buses, one of them is now a Superbus but the first Egid bus was going to Gilo. So that's kind of the last what are called ring neighbourhoods in Jerusalem. As you can see the signpost is directing us both to Gushet Tion along right 60 to Gilo itself. Tangentially this phenomenon of there being multiple bus companies in Jerusalem is a new development. The second bus here, the 75 is run by the Superbus company and the 30 bus just ahead of it is run by Egid. So this was only actually in the last few months that Superbus got a license to operate in Jerusalem and when it did it has broken the monopoly that was hit her toe held by Egid and if I may say so their buses are more comfortable. So the last thing we learn is that competition is good. So this is kind of the tail end of Baitsefafa I'm not exactly sure what is down here but it is some kind of craggy craggy landscape. Seems to be my go to word for these videos describing stuff as craggy. This road I believe would be leading us into Baitsefafa as you can see from the Arab bus there. Now we are sort of beginning to get into the whole reason that I wanted to come on this walk now that we are out of the city a little bit you can start to see some of the very nice greenery on both sides of the road. So we pretty much passed Ramat Rachel now you can see it off in the distance there and we get little respite from construction as we get out of the Jerusalem urbanization. So we have officially just crossed the green line I forgot to mention exactly where it was but if you can see my location on the map here we are just about 20 meters past the green line so we are now officially over it and technically anything beyond this point is already controversial thus if you read the Wikipedia page for Gilo or you will see it referred to in Israeli settlement. Just to be clear I am not endorsing that position I am just stating what the facts are. The facts at least as most people perceive them in the international community. Here we can see a bit of snow still not melted most of it is gone at this stage I am recording this just today or two after the snowing. What I want to be doing differently on this video versus the last time I came out here is taking this left turn this is going on to right 398 and so I am going to be taking this turn off Hebron Road the Mar Elias Monastery which I might come back to later is on the opposite side of the road just a little bit ahead of us this, by taking this road Haik O Ma is going to be on the right which is the south the Matra Kale is going to be on the left the Palestinian village of Um Tuba is going to be on the left and Sur Bahar they are both kind of looks like amalgamated into one village so this is what I wanted to come and record today just to see what the views are like from this section of the road pretty much from this point onwards the 398 travelling eastward of is going to be going into East Jerusalem there is really not much more of Jewish Jerusalem beyond this point after the Matra Kale which is the complex up on the hill so it's going to be pretty much all and this road actually loops down southbound around by Bethlehem and Bates Ahor which is one of the Bates Ahor is really part of Bethlehem although I think it's actually technically classed as area A I'm just waiting for this light to turn green and on the other side this is looking back towards those two towers where we were about 10 minutes ago that is in Arnona and then all the way to Jerusalem you've got a really roof in this point all over the city you can see the cranes in downtown Jerusalem all the way from up here in the south this is the kind of place where if Jerusalem ever gets around to installing decent cycling lanes they would be really needed because you can see trying to cycle on this road would be a bit risky to say the least so once you finally get across and across to the right of the road go by Hartleman and see what else can be seen finally green after the longest traffic light in the world so we're now onto the 398 and this is exactly what I came out here to see a bit of a bit of nature I'm going to try to get to the other side but I want to wait for some less chaotic crossing in the road looks like there are a couple of roads through here I never really appreciate it until recently just how many trails there are running through Jerusalem I'm not sure all of them are even mapped on all trails there we go so those buildings in the distance would already be in Hartleman in fact the Israeli government I believe recently announced the awarding of a tender for building in Hartleman which was controversial so living in Jerusalem it's kind of hard to you just get used to living here and then you're like well why would building in Hartleman be controversial because living in this city you're not reminded daily of the existence of the green line or any that stuff so yeah this is Hartleman in front of us we are both considered a settlement but also one of the ring neighborhoods is the word used to describe these neighborhoods that are attached to the city of Jerusalem so you can get buses right within Jerusalem to Hartleman back functions really as part of the city although this complex up on the hill here or Matrakel if I'm not mistaken is actually its own municipality and like I said earlier because it's getting a bit fuming here so this is labeled on the map as Omtuba the Palestinian Arab town on the other side of the wall I'm walking now on the route 398 which is going to wind around Hartleman don't really have any particular destination other than to try you can kind of see it from within this town as well Sur Bahar is also on this road facing eastward looking into East Jerusalem and past the separation barrier and up here on the right is Hartleman the town the edge of Jerusalem so it looks like that's about as far as I can go on this walk you can see where the actual pedestrian lane is going to come to an end on both sides so looks like there is a little track path but I probably will leave this adventure for another day thank you for watching