 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel. It is a Friday afternoon here in Jerusalem about 4 p.m. Given that this is the winter time it is almost the start of Shabbat. Shabbat will start. Candlelighting comes in sometime after 5 p.m. here so it's pretty early. Supermarkets have already been closed since approximately two o'clock depending on the supermarket so really at this time of winter in December in Jerusalem you have to be an early bird. Not only does the early bird catch the worm but if the bird, this analogy is really breaking down. If the bird doesn't wake up early enough in Jerusalem in the wintertime you can't even get your groceries done. So it can be a little bit frustrating I will not lie but anyway I'm going on a walk today towards the old city. I'm walking currently southbound on Hebron Road and I'm going to check out a church built in 1930 which is passing the Dan Boutique Hotel here on Dirk Hebron and I'm just going to take a few shots of the scenery coming up here on my left is Startup City named for Eranmar Galit. This is one of the I say smaller startup complexes here in Jerusalem. There's a few different high-tech companies and whatnot operating there including our crowd which is a really interesting crowdsourced VC platform of sorts investing in a lot of Israeli tech and just off to my right here is another way into Abu Tor where I was chased out of the village by Palestinian children a few days ago that was fun so yeah this is a Friday exploring here in Jerusalem after five o'clock in Jerusalem is very difficult buses stop the buses you'll see on the road now would be the Arab buses which are blue and white and green and white as I mentioned before going for a little walk today in the direction of the old city towards navigating on Google Maps through towards the church of St. Peter in Galatou hope we've got that right built in the 1930s apparently and as we're coming down towards the old city getting these really really nice views over East Jerusalem Augustus Victoria this is the Mount Zion Hotel and this is one of the more significant hotels in the city one of the victims of COVID you can see the entrance is just all broken now so we're going to go this is a busted Bethlehem you can see it's set on the front there flashing checkpoint 300 walking down now towards the old city we've just passed the Jerusalem Cinema Tech and there's some this is a venue where the Jerusalem municipality just below here they sometimes do food trucks and other public events a little windy road down and as Shabbat approaches and falls you start the tempo of the city changes pretty quickly from its weekday routine into the Shabbat mode if you will and you'll start to see lots and lots of religious and even ultra religious Jews making their way to the western wall in the old city which is only probably by 20 minutes walk from where I am here and Friday is also the religious day for Muslims Yom Juma so Jerusalem is kind of a strange city from a weekend perspective because not only does Israel in general work on a Sunday to Thursday week like many countries in the Middle East but you have the fact that it's catering to the religious proclivities of both Jews and Muslims who for Jews their religious day is Friday Saturday and for Muslims it's Friday so Thursday night effectively is the weekend night here in Jerusalem and Saturday night which is called in Hebrew Mutsash which is a contraction for Mutsay Shabbat is also actually quite popular as the time when people go out even though technically there is work the next day and stores will open for a few hours bars restaurants what have you after Shabbat so it kind of becomes like becomes a sort of second weekend night almost