 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here on a very cold morning in Jerusalem during the winter snap here today Just outside the newly opened somewhat newly opened Mount Zion Trench Now I'm gonna try to explain I'm gonna link Times of Israel had a really interesting article I'm gonna link to that in the description of this video Firstly, it's open from Sunday to Saturday 8 a.m. To 8 p.m. And it's free entrance So that's always appreciated tip one because I've just come the other way in the tunnel is bring some decent footwear because it is a little bit Muddy, perhaps just on the count of the rain. So basically when the Jordanians were controlling Eastern Jerusalem They had a platoon stationed in the old city And they used to fire their snipers marksmen would fire upon Israel Mount Zion was isolated from the rest of Jerusalem. So that posed a logistical problem You can if your history buff correct me in the comments, but basically Israel invented two things or installed two things one was the famous cable car which is In the cable car museum and in the Mount Zion hotel, which is currently closed for renovations And the second thing was that the combat engineering core of the IDF Zahal Invented this and this is very clever. Now the intent here was to move casualties and supplies Besides the Jordanians noticing from right here very very close to the old city and then up to Mount Zion now from what I got from the article they had a better success With the cable car which had to be lowered at day every single day. So the journey Jordanians wouldn't discover it This had its own clever concealment The engineering core built this in such a way that you can see it from the ramparts of the old city So the Jordanians never found out about this It was an incognito project and it's got kind of a tin roof for a while the residents were like, what is that tin roof? and Israel or the Jerusalem municipality decided to open this in order to commemorate And the CEC have been involved in every four every war Israel has fought since it's an important part of the of the army One other detail I mentioned before you actually go through the tunnel is that they have etched Names of Jerusalem the architect so it's mostly preserved They've done a little bit of embellishments and they've etched names of Jerusalem as it appears in the Tanakh into the roof The sun shines through in fact. I'm just going to bring the camera back here. You can see those in the roof Literally carved into the tin. I think this metal is tin could be wrong metal experts can't correct me Anyway without further ado, let's go down. It's only a three minute walk You can start from this side by the Jerusalem college Or you can start from the other side. I'm starting from the top and working down So here we go And you can just imagine What this was actually like I feel I should mention that your friend who has claustrophobia. You might find this a little uncomfortable. It's not too bad. It's not The ceiling's about this high. So but it is a little bit a little bit narrow So we're meandering downwards down the hill as you can see over this mud And that's it right the other side comes out right here, which people Familiar with Jerusalem will recognize you can start from this side as well Um, this is just on the route to the old city here Nice little place here for tour guides Uh to stop and you know explain the significance. There is a placard here It's only available in Hebrew, but it does tell the story of the trench And it's got some photographs And just so people can find it It is marked with a sign on this side as well for the main sign trench. There you go guys Hope this video was interesting useful. Uh really really cool little Commemoration to an interesting time in Jerusalem's history encourage people to come and check it out