Tour at עיר דוד: Part of his palace, Maayan HaGichon, water tunnels,& the rich history of Jerusalem

Guys, I'm here with a great tour tour guide over here in Jerusalem. >> We are here in Davidid. We are starting right over here. This is the original city of people these days go to the kiso. They eat bagels. They go to the not gone to the original city. This is the original al- that melik and mahameik lived. We're going to go upstairs, downstairs, underground. >> Briisha. That's right. As the city built up slowly, slowly slowly moved up the hill and where we see today the alto is also old city but that's later. We began over here m everything starts over here in Davidid. So let's go look where we're standing right now. We are standing on the lower slopes of Haramaria. I'm standing on Aramaria not where the B mikdash was. >> Not Harabias. >> Not Harabias cuz the B migdash was the top not the brown dome. Further, further further you can't see the golden dome. That was the spits of Haramaria. >> That's the old city in the back over there. >> The old city on the on the west side. This is on the misra the eastern side and as the puss says between the shoulders the will live between Haram on the east. Old city of the on the west the mikdash lived. was on Haramaria and this is where built the the first city the original lived right over here where you right under us. We're going to see right now. >> Wait a second. What's this part over here? This >> this today is Silwan that neighbor of Silwan but really you can see my can see in the rock Myus Kuru from Bay Sheni. And >> what was this in the Tat? I mean this was you told me this was part of Haris. >> Yeah. Yeah. So they built on top of the built on top of the for they built. >> Yeah. And if we look over here, we can see the mountain. This is the mountain. And if we see the natural mountain, the natural stone stone, >> the first thing that's built here, this would have been the first the arish that's built here. And we know built a fortress mitsud. He builds a fortress. >> How do they know that? And how do they find this? I guess it was was it was full full full of garbage of rockab archaeologists came and dig and dig and dig and dig until we found the foundation of maybe palace. Over here we can see a boray, a water system. Right now it's raining and it's filling up with water. Bashem are filling up. There was probably a house or something over here. The roof was tilted and all the water flowed in a little bit. It does flow in still here. >> How long ago did they find this? This is in the 80s, 1980s. About 30 years ago, 30 40 years ago, they dug over here. And we believe this is from the times of the All of this was also filled with dirt and rack and soot and garbage for many many thousands of years. Thousands of years until archaeologists came. A dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog and look what we find look at this big big wall. What do you guys think this is a why would they build a over here? This was a retaining wall. But we are looking at a retaining wall that goes back to the times of Tanakh and perhaps on the top was Melik's palace cuz why would they build such a big retaining wall if not there was something very special on the top and they wanted to retain something important on the bottom of the retaining wall. As the mountain gets slopes down, we find little rooms >> and we find >> windows >> windows. These are little rooms. >> What's that? What's that hole over there? >> It's a toilet. This is a toilet in the times of >> Look at the retaining wall. A really good map over here. This is what of old look like. The times of the mdash in the top all the palace. All the things built maybe Mitsuda Davidid the retaining wall we just saw >> and then the rest of the Eden lived there >> all the rest of the Jews all the way down >> and this is how it looks now. >> This is how it looks today. >> The golden dome alakasi which we know today is here and >> where the retaining wall over here >> somewhere over here. over here and this is like >> this is here Davidid today who lives over here now >> some Jews some Arabs mixed on top of us is both yidden and Arabs >> are going down here >> spinal staircase hold on tight >> okay we are going down into the secret shaft beneath the city the city people lived here this was somebody's house and then under his uh uh kitchen uh floor he made a secret trap door a secret stairwell to get to the water. >> Wow. She going down so deep. >> This if you look on the side, you can see mama still see the chisel marks. Look, look, look. Can you imagine? They had they dug this with a hammer. There were no big jack. You know what do they call those big things? I'm sitting over here inside a mlat. I know there's no siren. There was no azaka. But 3,000 years ago, if there was a war in Idushim, the women, the children, the men who weren't in the army, they came down over here. Over here, there was a perfect temperature. They store dried figs, dried dates, and water they had right from here. And water, the spring, the natural ghon was right below over here. The Gishhon spring pumped fresh mim. They had food in the storehouses and we were totally sealed safe under the ground under Jusham. Here is the place with Sodako took the oil and was miko right over here next to the Gishhon. I'm standing next to the Gishhon spring. So this is the exact spot. Can you imagine? So the Kakoyan Nosovi appointing me. Wow. They are entering the original Ghon Gh where where the ye used to drink the water before the B of MD over here the will be. Wow 100%. This is the closest um screen next to the measurement. Yes. >> The water comes from under here. Right under here. The water starts deep under the ground. There's a hole and the water flows out. Fresh. This is the entrance to tunnel. This is where started digging. >> Can you go down there? >> Over here we have two options. Either we could put our sandals on and walk through Kisio's tunnels all the way 20 minutes, 1,750 ft in the calavaser or we could take the easy route, the dry route. We're going to take the dry route. This was all the water flowed here. Not anymore since the times of And this is all dry. Also a very fun tunnel, but we're going to keep dry today. Really? >> Well, they have to stay here until they lose weight for a few days. >> They stop stuck. That's it. I think I'm stuck. That's it. >> We just came out of the tunnels. We have to see the olive trees. Erid Zen. Olive tree. 700 years old. He's still green. He's still giving parents. >> This is the oldest olive tree. >> This is one of the oldest olive trees in the old city. He deserves a lot of respect. >> On it, I see. Yeah, you can still come in and get oil. Over here is the walls. These these are the walls of the alch. The original alto was here and near the vid. And these are the walls. >> Wow. >> Around the old city. These are the original >> also hidden underneath or this was like a hidden hidden hidden also hidden. >> It means we're mamish walking now just outside the old city. Now we're outside the city. The city was hidden. >> People used to be over here. >> Yeah. When people were oil, they slept out over here all over the place. >> Can see the drawing me all the way up there. on land to go down. Wow, look at this. I don't want to go behind him in case he goes back down. >> This is the end of the water tunnel over here. The water comes out. It comes this way and it goes into the pool from the Ghon spring. Where's the pool? >> Pool is over there. We're going to see it. They're digging right now. We're trying to find archaeologist exactly how big it was, but it's definitely somewhere over there. This is from the Gishhon spring to Briata Shilak. Over here, we're digging. You can see the archaeologists are digging and we're trying to find where is the Shiluak pool. We know it has to be here somewhere. And the question now is how big is it? Where? >> So they're doing the job right now. >> They're doing the job and I met Hashem another year, two years, we'll know exactly >> when do they start? >> Just started. A year ago we started digging. >> So you say like in a year or two they're going to find the pool. >> We hope. We hope. Who know? >> They found any signs like or something. >> Uh one thing we were surprised about, they thought that it was mammish right here. >> These steps are original and we thought it was mammish right here and they started digging and it it seems to be it's much deeper than we thought. Over here is the pool. We're digging exactly how big the pool was, but we know the steps are here. These are the original steps. Oh, take a look over here. Here's the breaka. What we think it meant, how big it was. Maybe it wasn't so big, but And here are the steps. The madre golem, which brought you from the pool up to shiny >> shiny. And today we can walk on a few of them. In a few months we'll be able to walk on all of them but at least a few of the original steps mameish being. >> Wow. This is original steps that used to be and the buy is shiny. >> Wow. >> This is wow. This is this is how they used to shop. This was shook. So they dug out their original steps with Wow. Wow.