 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. Today's project I'm going to be walking on Parka Masila which is this public community in Jerusalem that's basically the line of the old trainway from Jerusalem to Jaffa and it leads all the way down to Teddy Stadium and South Jerusalem so I'm gonna be walking. It starts here just before the first station and basically it's this old train line that's being converted into kind of a public park style The first major thing you pass by on the Parka Masila is the Tachalari Shona which is the first station entertainment complex which I've recorded a couple of videos in sight here. It's this kind of meeting place in Jerusalem, that little ferry ground here and restaurants and it's kind of a co-it's supposed to be friendly for all Jerusalem residents so they have here places that open on the Sabbath, the Shabbat. There's also a bike lane running on the Masila so you can see I'm on the pedestrian side. Hopefully on this side you have where the people on the bikes can go and there's lots of restaurants here they've introduced this new thing in which you can order from any of the restaurants and they all like aggregate their menus which is pretty cool. Jerusalem is not famous as a city of bars but there are a few ones and this is one I actually quite like it's called a Habutekah. They have some nice outdoor space here for sitting in their beer garden. There's a lot of exhibitions here so they're setting up a area for Shavua Hasetah Eivri which is the Hebrew Book Festival so you can see they're gonna have lots of stands, there's lots of little events like this in this area over here. You can also see all along the pass they have these artifacts from the when the train was running here so you can see here this kind of juncture box for signaling the train. We're walking again now along the part where the original railway track is preserved and this is actually similar to a project that was undertaken in New York so this is the original gauge and you can read all about for the tech those interested in railway tech you can read all the details of the type of line gauge that was used when this railway was in operation. There's also lots of placards here if you're interested in the history so you can see about a plaque here that's in Hebrew, Arabic and English talking about the history, the railway and what it was used for and World War 1 1917 the date during which it was in use. Now crossing Derspeit Lachem which is Bethlehem Road. Meandering southbound now on the park and this is why it's called in Hebrew park Masila because there's this really nice green space that the municipality has carved out between the two directions there's benches to sit on so during the summer and I'm recording this in June this is a popular place for Israelis to hang out and in my you've got some water fountains here always very useful more placards I love my placards and I think this is great but my I think they could actually do a lot more with this kind of park area in terms of putting up amenities here perhaps a little pop-up craft beer bar or a restaurant or something of that nature would be would be cool. One of the well-known features along the train line is what's called the Tachanot Kriyay which with these reading stations so they're kind of modeled after bus stations and you see they've got a kind of bus station like sign and these are lending libraries that are open to the public so anybody can come and take a book and they books in Hebrew they've books in English and this is very popular because in Jerusalem you have a lot of English-speaking residents French-speaking residents and people Orthodox Jews who keep the Shabbat do not use electronics so therefore these libraries are really useful that people will exchange books that can be read there and you can see again they have signs in English in Hebrew and also in Arabic. You can see they've got a poster here showing what the railway looked like during the time of the mandate and somebody has applied graffiti saying save Sheikh Jarrah so you can see that despite the people who run this saying it it's a fulcrum of coexistence evidently there are different political opinions among those using this public community. I must say that doing this YouTube channel has been a great way to get some exercise to get out and about I'm currently doing a mixture of remote work and freelancing and I spent the last two nights working till like midnight virtually so it's amazing to be able to just take a couple of hours out for to get some exercise get some sun clear my head a bit and then I'll go back to working in a couple of hours and as I make more of these videos I hope to do a lot more of that so if you're interested in what's there to see in Jerusalem let me know in the comments what I should check out next and I'd be happy to go and shoot a video there you can see there is a lot of development work going on the area this is called a Masila this development here where there's this big crane and luxury living in the German colony so the area that this route passes through is considered one of the most well-to-do and absolute neighbors neighborhoods in Jerusalem recording this video during a midday during the week so it's really nice to see it so quiet for a change if I recorded this video on the Shabbat for instance this section of the park would be absolutely thronged with people and even during other times of the week after work this is very popular with people exercising just passing out another the reading station so they're actually dotted along this track this is now we're almost we're going through the back of Talpio we're coming through the back of Talpio and I'm not sure exactly what this canyon slash mall is called but this is where we are it's one of the back malls in Talpio there's a Rami Lavey store here so we're going further next we're going to be passing through the neighborhood of Bates of Afa interesting enough you have sections of the railway that are like this that they've kind of just preserved the actual outside lines excuse my lack of rail terminology here and then there are small sections like the one I'm just going over now we actually have the original railway in all its glory and you can actually see there's inscriptions you can make out PRBS 75 1933 so you can get the date when I presume this was in operation here nice that there's lots of park benches here so if you need to sit down it's currently like 30 degrees Celsius so it's pretty warm and it's lit up as well you've got lights so you can walk this at nighttime too so I just feel like you know when you're doing a lot of work there comes a time where your brain just like isn't working anymore and you need to do something like this take some exercise so that's how I'm able to do these things during the day so now just going through you part of the city we're gonna be in Bates of Afa soon and there's a big underpass next to the highway that we're just about to go under here we're just passing under the road that goes over part of Talpeot and the Mesila continues under it and there's some really colorful graffiti here and if you can see that under the bridge and some of it's an Arabic okay we are now going through Bates of Afa which is one of the Arabic neighborhoods of Jerusalem and this is the soccer field in Bates of Afa and you can see there is a mask here in the distance so this is Bates of Afa which is a neighborhood in south Jerusalem and behind it leading into Bethlehem you can see a couple of minarets here the mask and this park goes straight through which is actually really cool that it connects the different parts of the city this black here is just telling the history of Bates of Afa and it says that like a lot of the Arab villages or parts of Jerusalem it was actually originally a village that was later integrated to the city and it was in the hands of the Jordanians originally and the Jaffa Jerusalem railway ran through the village beginning in 1949 if the Armistice agreements the village was cut in two part of it came under Jordanian control part remained Israeli in a state that way until Jerusalem was unified in 1967 just diverge a little now we have a section of concrete and now we have another section where the original train gauge in its full is visible here running along the ground these days there is no train that runs between Jerusalem and Jaffa specifically but there are actually two trains running between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv the first and the much better known one is the high-speed train that I made a video of before and that's really quick and that's now how almost everybody gets between the two cities but there's actually still a slower train that runs between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and it leaves from this train station where we're gonna wind up here in Malcha and there's kind of no reason to take that train anymore but it is very scenic so that's still in existence you really get the full Jerusalem experience taking this thing because we're now coming into some sort of a construction site and I'm not exactly sure what's happened to our train line because it's currently in the middle of here so I'm just gonna talk to the workers and hope this continues but yeah this is some sort of construction project okay this it turns out is as far as you can currently go on the train line I just spoke to one of the workers and he explains to me that this is a construction site where the train just ends so it looks like I'm not gonna be able to go all the way to where this path officially stops in Teddy Stadium and you can just see behind me there is just they're like building some kind of an overpass here and the train line just randomly stops but this has been enough exercise for one day anyway thank you guys for watching today's video exploration of Jerusalem checking out the Park Hamas-e-Lar running towards but not currently terminating it seems in Malcha if you'd like to get more videos from me about Jerusalem Israel and many other things then please feel free to hit the subscribe button thank you guys very much for watching