 Currently on Mount Hermon here it's actually my first time I've ever been here and we're going to take the cable car going up to the peak. As far as I know the highest peak in Israel you can also see into Syria and the Syria Hermon so apparently we read in on Facebook yesterday that there was a first snow of the season yesterday on the Syrian side of the mountain not on the Israeli side but from the top of the peak here we're probably able to see a great view in so I'm really looking forward to this. I've always heard about it. I haven't been up here yet. I think we're the only people on the cable car if that's possible. Pretty sure they just started it for us. Just getting near the top of Mount Hermon here and it's really really amazing inside really quiet. Obviously in the ski season there is snow apparently the first snow of the season was seen yesterday on the Syrian side of the mountain. Of course you can see into Syria it's going to be nice to see the top of Mount Hermon for the first time in other post-Aliya Milestone for me. Some pictures here showing the history of Hermon, the first kiosk and you can see what it looks like when there's snow. Not so many people. Tourism season is off here and it looks very very rocky up at the top. Cisunettos will instantly recognize the presence of a weather station and here there is a not sure this is like a historical tank. It doesn't look like anything even remotely current. It's kind of sitting here. Interesting it's got no sign this is kind of like hanging out here and there's all these interesting buildings that not clear exactly what they are what they're used for. This is a little bit further up the road again and you can read on Wikipedia about this and the second war on Mount Hermon which is part of the Yom Kippur war when the first one from what I understand Syria there's this was an IDF outpost that Syria captured. They repelled an Israeli counter attack and then finally Israel took it back in October. Why the views are spectacular so he's looking at the map and the border is actually a small bit north still of this point and that's that the border is officially demarcated by Undof Line Alpha which marks the Israeli side of the DMZ. Line Bravo's on the Syrian side so there's another few kilometers. The border is probably somewhere in open territory. You can actually see a couple of cars and I'm wondering if those are already in Syria quite possibly. I'll check the map again but the landscape appears really impressive. It's actually hard to believe this is really the highest point in Israel because you can just get up here you can see up on the right here there's a bunch of looks like kind of army intelligence probably some kind of listening post tons and tons of radar stations and stuff like that and just kind of open territory here beneath the mountain and there's a car coming down this road so you can go even even further north in this. I wonder if it's an open road to civilians or just the army with this one coming down here driving south and this building is interesting it's got a kosher certification it looks to be abandoned at least at the moment there's nothing up there and I'll be curious to read the history these afterwards these kind of a fortification like things up here with some rusty coils of barbed wire around them this is probably the closest I've ever come to experiencing complete quiet in Israel it's eerily quiet I pray the only thing you hear is like a back of beeper running a few kilometers away and besides that it's totally silent and in any event I've got my Femi Pam 2 up on a up on the Yulanzi MT-34 which is why I made the video before I left about all the different things I was going to try so I could just kind of show the different shots it can get so right now it's just kind of within arms length I'm just going to see if you can turn around during switch mode during operation I don't think you can oh you can amazing okay so this is now in the cameras facing forward it's on the Yulanzi and you can see I'm just kind of panning about now I'm going to go ahead and put this on full telescopic reach before you're doing and I just get it vertical it's not really a very big stick it's about a meter isn't going to go from the air here you can probably see my reflection I'm holding it now right one meter in the air and you can see what the stabilization looks like here now I have it in selfie mode but I'm holding it holding the base of the selfie stick so it's about kind of a meter for my body more or less and you can see how this looks and how the stabilization looks when the Femi Pam 2 is on a telescopic monopod final demo I'm going to do is put this into 90 degrees standing at eight standing the monopod now we can hopefully kind of get down really close to the grain