First-Temple Jerusalem: The City of David | Jewish History on the Road

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3 жыл бұрын

NOTE: In the video I blame the National Nature and Parks Authority for referring to the Large Stone Structure as David's Palace without adequate conclusive evidence. In fact, this is the fault of the Ir David Foundation or Elad, the current manager of the site. Elad has been criticized for hampering and even damaging archaeological finds, for using questionably legal practices to seize Arab-owned homes in the City of David, for accepting large amounts of dark money, and for furthering a political agenda. Elad is currently under heavy scrutiny by Israel's Supreme Court.
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The City of David is part of Jerusalem Walls National Park. It is located south of the current walls of the Old City and is open Sunday-Friday except on holidays.
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@austinmarx4783 3 жыл бұрын

I just finished binge watching your entire channel. Keep up the great work!

@sdelmonte 3 жыл бұрын

We took the City of David tour ten years ago. I managed to wrench my back on the steep and slick stone paths at the end of the trek and flew home the next day in some pain. But it was worth it.

@richardglady3009 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Thank you, especially, for going places I can’t (wheelchair and claustrophobia from a hyperbaric chamber). I love all your videos and really appreciate your covering Jewish history. As we pull ourselves out of Covid, I hope you get a chance to do more traveling around Israel.

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. This was inspired in part by my mom, who wants to come visit again but turns 68 on Saturday and rolled her ankle on the steps of Old Jaffa last time.

@andrewstirling2051 2 жыл бұрын

I would relish a chance to visit Jerusalem! In the United States, specifically in Oregon where I live, cities only have histories of a few centuries, rather than the millennia of stories elsewhere in the world. Ignoring what Jerusalem means to me religiously, the very way it is constructed, with buildings millennia old existing alongside modern ones and how it kind of all stacks on top of each other is just amazing!

@robertobonano7828 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for all your hard work, specifically now with all the lockdowns in your nation. Hopefully ABBA will allowed me to visit Jerusalem in the near future and see everything for myself. Shalom.

@mikeoxsmal8022 3 жыл бұрын

What is ABBA

@omegapc9520 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeoxsmal8022 father

@robertobonano7828 3 жыл бұрын

Abba is an endearment term that in English equates to daddy or poppa. Abba is a Hebrew word. I just capsized the word to mean I'm referring to the Almighty Creator of everything. Shalom.

@LordJagd 3 жыл бұрын

Abba is also the Aramaic word for father too!

@robertobonano7828 3 жыл бұрын

@@LordJagd Aramaic and Hebrew are related to each other. It's like British english and American english or Australian english they are related to each other but have significant differences. I have seen many movies directed by Guy Ritchiey( he's British) were many words I don't understand but I know their speaking in English. It's just finding there specific meaning for each speaker. Fortunately many words in the different english dialect means the same. The same applies to Middle Eastern languages. Jesus/Yahshua spoke both languages. There a many scriptures that showcase that the Messiah refer to the Almighty as ABBA.

@danadavis1754 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this Jewish History on the Road episode, hope to see more in the future :)

@johnbecay6887 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for posting. highly entertaining and informative.

@LordScreech Жыл бұрын

Wow, interesting (and disheartening) info about Elad. How was a private (not just politically extremist settler) organization able to obtain management of a public historic site in the first place??

@SamAronow Жыл бұрын

AFAIK it wasn't a public historic site to begin with. The law as currently written basically gives _any_ Jewish organization _carte blanche_ to claim any Jewish-owned property that was captured by Jordan in the War of Independence (which includes a lot of East Jerusalem). If it was the next-of-kin of the prior owners, it would be one thing, but to allow any organization to make that claim is some hardcore bullshit, and it's what's led to the longstanding Sheikh Jarrah standoff.

@umleroi 9 ай бұрын

Did you take the wet route or dry route? I started to take the wet route but chickened out after even my waterproof shoes got soaked, and there were no lights. The school group behind me took the wet route though, and they were loud, rambunctious, and moist coming up on me after having had such an adventure.

@mikeoxsmal8022 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Are you planing to do more election. Videos you stopped in like 1977?

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

I will continue at some point, but on my channel Elections Israel. kzfaq.info/love/hm6ruT0nyR-6BceX6qpgdg

@jaydee6414 3 жыл бұрын

Small correction: The Acra was built by the Seleucids not the Egyptians. Good video though. 👍🏻

@AANG207 3 жыл бұрын

Makes me want to make Aaliyah so bad!

@kellywellington7122 2 жыл бұрын

Was there and did the same jaunt back in the last millenium. At that time, the endpoint was under (re)construction. Jerusalem is great fun.

@CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful city

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

It would be wondrously convenient to live there if I ever had the patience to do so.

@bosbanon3452 2 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine what happened to the land that make the terrain changed

@gilgameschvonuruk4982 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if there are still unexplored caves or tunnels under that city

@LordJagd 3 жыл бұрын

There probably for sure are. A lot of more minor sites around it have tons of archeological information.

@BradleyOsborn 2 жыл бұрын

Looking good. Stay well.

@burnin8orable 3 жыл бұрын

6:52 damn it Brits! You just had to get rid of Jerusalem's rodent problem by bringing ferral cats.

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

If it makes you feel better, felis silvestris lybica is still native to Israel.

@HebaruSan 3 жыл бұрын

I guess one advantage of enthusiastic nationalism is that it makes the state take archaeology really seriously

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

Would that the sketchy org currently managing this site (as alluded to in the description) took it as seriously as the actual Antiquities Authority does. Before coming here, I did a video on Yodfat, an entire city that's an active dig site, for Armchair History, and the difference was astonishing.

@Mark761966 2 жыл бұрын

Lookityou being all Tourist Guidey! :D

@toraparatodos 3 жыл бұрын

I thought Gehenna was West of the Armenian quarter's walls. Did that name also move like Har Tzion?

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

No, you're right, its just a bigger area. Hinnom is the whole valley running south of the Old City and then curves around to the Sultan's Pool.

@vinfacts11 3 жыл бұрын

Are you from New York or have ancestors from there? You have a much stronger NY accent than any New Yorker i know lmfaoo.

@trevor1667 2 жыл бұрын

Comment!

@maxpowers7472 3 жыл бұрын

Are you Bukharian?

@thaddeusal-britani1099 2 жыл бұрын

He memorised Sahih al Bukhari, if that’s what you’re asking

@majidamd2375 3 жыл бұрын

Shalom all I Love Jews Long Live ISRAEL Amen.

@brenosantana1458 3 жыл бұрын

@luseimizo094 2 жыл бұрын

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@rafisw160 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that informative and exciting video. Interesting fact: the site is co-run by the Antiquities Authority and a private religious and political organization whose stated goal is to “Judaize [the Arab neighborhood of] Silwan.” Make of that what you will. I expect some angry comments.

@LordJagd 3 жыл бұрын

It seems like they’ve succeeded. All I see is people going to the region expecting to see the remains of the city of David or Solomon’s temple, which is like going to Chicago because Batman was there. I see no interest in the actual history of the ancient Canaanites. Also a lot of presumptive conclusions of Biblical connections with any finds in the region.

@firefox5926 2 жыл бұрын

5:21 bulshit .. no way in hell did a king dig anything ... a lot of slaves maybe but.... sure lets name it after him .. IM NOT BITTER WHY DO YOU ASK :P

@buymybooks437 3 жыл бұрын

King David probably never existed. Dont know why there is little talk of King Omri of Israel who really did exist and was a great king.

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

Because Jews vastly outnumber Samaritans.

@buymybooks437 3 жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow that cultural divide still exists?

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

@@buymybooks437 Samaritans still exist and are a separate people, yes. They still have a Temple as well.

@wdobni 2 жыл бұрын

i fail to see demonstrated anything that is 'special' about the location of jerusalem.....it doesn't seem to have any special or outstanding topography or defensibility or agronomy or hydrology or geology or vulcanology.....it looks like most other hilly rocky barren regions in Israel, although no doubt 5000 years ago it was 'flowing with milk and honey'.....why this particular geographic point of land should be exalted and storied above all others is not immediately apparent, compared to any place else within a 500 mile radius......it looks abused and rough and forlorn and harsh and almost lifeless..................and this whole tunnel of hezekiah looks about as inviting and holy as any english coal mine