 Welcome back to my YouTube channel. I'm here today in the Israel Museum on another gray rainy day here in Jerusalem and I'm here to check out the visual virtual reality based exhibit about the ancient Jewish community of Aleppo called Halab in Hebrew known by the same name in Arabic and what they have here is a virtual reality exhibit which is bringing to life the great synagogue one of the most famous synagogues in the Jewish world and a community of one of the most ancient Jewish diaspora communities dating back to the second temple period or perhaps even earlier. Their synagogue was destroyed in 1947 when anti-Jewish sentiment spread through the Arab world after the one partition vote for Israel and then again during the Syrian civil war but a lady called Sarah Shama was able to go in she made aliyah to Israel but she returned to Syria came there and made an extensive photography project and that those photographs have been brought to light in this virtual reality based tour which simulates being in the great synagogue. So I've just finished the experience it's a 15 minute story and it's a full VR experience so they have them put they have you put on these kind of big ear blocking headphones and a VR headset for someone who's done anything like this and it's really really amazing it's full 360 degrees so you can move around in your seat through the simulated world of the ancient synagogue of Aleppo and they tell the whole story culminating in the burning of the shul or the synagogue in 1947 as well as the protagonist moving to Jerusalem Israel so it's fitting that it's housed here in the Israel Museum. It is a 15 charcoal subsidy on top of the cost of admission to the museum so slightly more to get in but it's definitely well worth it.