Walk With Me - Steve Martin - Jerusalem, Old City, Zion Gate

Walk With Me - Steve Martin
Jerusalem, Old City, Zion Gate

Steve Martin

Published on Oct 14, 2018

Walk With Me - Jerusalem, Old City, Zion Gate 10.14.18 Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin - to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.

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Jerusalem, Old City, Zion Gate 10.14.18 - video

Steve Martin

Published on Oct 14, 2018

Jerusalem, Old City, Zion Gate 10.14.18

Correction: In the video I say the Jews took back the Old City Jerusalem in 1948. Actually, it was during the Six Day War in June 1967. Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin - to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.

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Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta) The Gates of Jerusalem Then and Now (Part I) - Zion Gate

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

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The Gates of Jerusalem Then and Now, Part I Zion Gate Posted: 22 Jul 2018 09:30 PM PDT Updating first posting in Israel Daily Picture in preparation for Book 3, Jews and Holy Sites in the Holy Land, Revealed in Early Photographs. The walls of Jerusalem's Old City that we see today were built in 1540 during the days of the Ottoman Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent.   The location and name "Zion Gate" appear on maps dating back to the 12th century.  It is one of eight gates in the Old City Wall.   Zion Gate, picture by Bergheim, circa 1867.  Today, the walls are pock-marked from bullets and artillery shells fired during the1948 war in the Jews' attempt to resupply and  relieve the Jewish Quarter besieged by the Jordanian Legion. Zion Gate (circa 1898)  The photo was captioned "Jerusalem"  with no further detail. While the American Colony photographic  department was established in 1898, its founder, Elijah  Meyer, was an active photographer prior to that date. Zion Gate circa 1900  Camels leaving "David's Portal" (circa 1910) Expulsion of Jews from the Jewish Quarter in the 1948 War through the Zion Gate (John Philips for Life Magazine) Located between Mt. Zion and the Jewish and Armenian Quarters, the gate was the setting for fierce fighting during the 1948 war.  A small Palmach force, commanded by David "Dado" Elazar (later IDF chief of staff in 1973), attempted to break through the gate on May 1948 to relieve the besieged Jewish Quarter.  They were met with stiff resistance by the Jordanian Legion and were forced to withdraw. On May 28, 1948 the Jewish Quarter surrendered.  Jews were expelled through Zion Gate and didn't return until the city of Jerusalem was reunited 19 years later in the June 1967 war.

Tisha B'Av, the Day of Jewish Mourning Posted: 22 Jul 2018 05:37 AM PDT Jewish men sitting on the ground at the "Wailing Wall" (circa  1935). From the Library of Congress collection.  Tisha B'Av is commemorated today (on the 10th of Av), Sunday July 22, 2018. The ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av -- Tisha B'Av -- is the day in the Hebrew calendar when great calamities befell the Jewish people, including the destruction of both Temples in Jerusalem, the fall of the fortress Beitar in the Jewish rebellion against Rome in 136 CE, and the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492.  The day is commemorated with fasting, prayers and the reading of Lamentations.  In Jerusalem, thousands pray at the Kotel, the Western Wall.   "Devout Jewish women" at the Wall (circa 1900). View another photo of devout women here  The American Colony photographers frequently focused their cameras on the worshipers at the "Wailing Place of the Jews."  The Colony founders who came to Jerusalem in 1881 were devout Christians who saw the return of the Jews to the Holy Land as a sign of messianic times.  Of the dozens of pictures at the Kotel there are several of elderly men and women sitting on the ground or on low stools, customs of mourning practiced on Tisha B'Av.  "A Jewish beggar reading at the Wailing Wall" (circa 1920). Note others sitting on the ground. The day is almost certainly Tisha B'Av and he is probably reading the book of Lamentations.  Jews straining to see the Western Wall (circa 1929)  Other pictures presented here show the very narrow and confined area of the Kotel over the ages until Israel's army captured the Old City in 1967 and enlarged the Kotel plaza.  The tragedies that occurred to the Jewish nation are also evident in the pictures of the deserted plaza after Arab pogroms in 1929.  The area was deserted, of course, during the 19 years of Jordanian rule of the Old City when Jews were forbidden to pray at the site. A story is told of Napoleon passing a synagogue and hearing congregants inside mourning.  To his question who they are mourning, he was told they were weeping over the destruction of the Jewish Temple 1,800 years earlier.  Napoleon responded, according to the legend, "If the Jews are still crying after so many hundreds of years, then I am certain the Temple will one day be rebuilt." Western Wall deserted in 1929. View looking south. "Jews' wailing place without mourners. Deserted during 1929 riots." View looking north. A Jordanian soldier (and policeman in the background) at the Western Wall one month after Jews were expelled from the Old City's Jewish Quarter in May 1948. Dedicated in memory of  Chaim Menachem ben Levi

Life and Death of a Jewish Courtyard in Jerusalem's Old City

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

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Life and Death of a Jewish Courtyard in Jerusalem's Old City Posted: 23 Apr 2015 A scene in a Jerusalem courtyard in the Jewish Quarter, April 1917 (Imperial War Museum Q 86316) The picture of this Jerusalem courtyard in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City was taken by a German army photographer during World War I and was found in the British Imperial War Museum.  Jerusalem at the time was ruled by the Ottomans.  The distinctive arches on the building on the right identify it as the Rothschild Building, part of the Batei Machaseh compound built for Jewish residents of the Jewish Quarter.  It was donated by Baron Wilhelm Karl de Rothschild of Frankfurt.  The building still bears the Rothschild family's coat of arms. The compound was built between 1860 and 1890 to provide housing for Jerusalem's poor. The Rothschild Building appears in a series of dramatic Life Magazine photographs taken by John Phillips during the Jordanian capture of the Old City during the 1948 war. The arches can be seen on the left side of these pictures; the picture above was a reverse view of the ones below.  The first was taken in the midst of the fighting in June 1948, and the Jews are seen gathering their belongings for their evacuation.  The second picture, taken in July 1948, shows the looting that took place.  The pictures appear in the DaledAmos blog. Jewish Quarter courtyard prior to evacuation (Life Magazine, John Phillips) Jewish Quarter after the evacuation and looting (Life Magazine, John Phillips) Phillips' last picture shows the Jews' evacuation from the Old City under the guard of Jordanian Legionnaires.  The Rothschild Building serves as the backdrop to the tragic picture. Jewish refugees heading to the Zion Gate near the Rothschild Building

The Gates of Jerusalem's Old City -- In Honor of "Jerusalem Day"

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Chapter: Jewish Festivals -- The Gates of Jerusalem's Old City -- In Honor of "Jerusalem Day" Posted: 28 May 2014   Sha'arei Hulda, the Double & Triple Gates, now sealed         עומדות, היו רגלינו בשערייך, ירושלים ירושלים הבנויה כעיר שחוברה-לה יחדיו Our feet did stand firm within your gates, O Jerusalem Jerusalem, built up, is like a city that is united - Psalms 122           Israel celebrated "Jerusalem Day" May 28, 2014, commemorating the reuniting of the city of Jerusalem during the 1967 war.  For 19 years, between 1948 and 1967, the city was split between warring Jordanian and Israeli forces. Thousands of Israelis visited Jerusalem, danced to the Western Wall, and marched around the Old City's gates.  We present here antique pictures of the gates, some taken 160 years ago.   Click on the photos to enlarge, click on the caption to read more about each gate.                 Golden Gate, Sha'ar Harachamim (now sealed)                Lion's Gate                            Herod's Gate           The New Gate       Damascus Gate        Dung Gate      Zion Gate    Jaffa Gate (hand colored)

Jerusalem Photos - from Love For His People's Ahava Adventure

A few of the 2000+ photos I took in Jerusalem on our 2010 Ahava Adventure trip.

Steve Martin
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Jerusalem Park

Pine tree near Kidron Valley

- it forms the Hebrew letter "shin"

Zion Gate into the Old City near Jewish Quarter

Church in the Armenian Quarter

King David stature near his tomb, which is close by

the Last Supper location.

Jewish Quarter's older men...

...and young kids.

Gathering in plaza near the Cardo (Jewish Quarter)

A few sheep and camels

Shwarma!

The Western Wall (Kotel)

Meat (lamb, turkey, beef) cooking 

in preparation for shwarma sandwiches.

Pomegranates and lemons

Walking home from school outside the Old City

A look back up the road to the 

Lion's (St. Stephen's) Gate

- Old City, Jerusalem

Everyday Life of Jews in Jerusalem's Old City 120 Years Ago - Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

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The Everyday Life of Jews in Jerusalem's Old City 120 Years Ago Posted: 15 Jan 2014  The oldest pictures of Jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City date from the 1850s, such as this photo taken by Mendel Diness. (With permission of Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University. 1859) Original caption: "A Bazaar in Jerusalem" (Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography at UCR  ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside)  In his 1871 travelogue, Travels around the World, former U.S. Secretary of State William Seward described the prayers of the Jews at the Western Wall (Kotel) -- "pouring out their lamentations over the fall of their beloved city."  He reported the Jewish population of the city was 8,000, twice the number of the Christian or Muslim residents. Many of the century-old photos of the Jews of the Holy Land were taken during their prayers at the Kotel. Far fewer were the less formal pictures of their everyday life in Jerusalem.  We present such pictures here. What did everyday life look like? Close scrutiny of the "Bazaar in Jerusalem" shows Jewish men (and probably Jewish women in the foreground) shopping and walking past a parked camel in the shuk of the Old City.  See the enlargement below.  The sign. Interpretations are welcomed. We were intrigued by the sign above the store on the left,  and we enlarged it. We discovered the sign, in Hebrew and Yiddish, was for a bedding store and read: Smeared cotton (not clear what it was "shmeared" with)  Readymade quilts or covers Mattresses – Best Sorts The last line are the names of the store's proprietors, but all that can be easily read is "Chaim Tzvi."  A Jewish money changer just inside the Jaffa Gate under  signs advertising cheese and butter products(with  Rabbi Kook's kashrut supervision) and a printer. (Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography  at UCR ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside)  The Getty Research Institute labels this picture  as a  "Jeblanier jeuf  à  Jérusalem," taken in  1890.  The Jewish merchant's profession is  a "ferbantier"  -- a  tinsmith or "blecher" in  Yiddish.  (Credit: Ken and  Jenny Jacobson  Orientalist Photography Collection, Getty) A Jewish hat store right outside of the Jaffa Gate.  This picture is from an enlargement of an original - here.  (Library of Congress, note the Library's citation of Israel Daily Picture to date the picture as pre-1898) Orthodox Jews among the throngs inside Jaffa Gate, an enlargement of an original - here. (Credit: Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography  at UCR ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside)   The setting inside the Jaffa Gate would again appear in later pictures showing the evacuation of Jews from the Old City during Arab rioting in 1929 and 1936.  (Note the tree in the pictures above and below.)  In 1948, the Old City Jews were expelled through the Zion Gate. Jewish evacuation from the Old City of Jerusalem, Jaffa Gate, during 1936 Arab rioting and attacks.   The soldiers are British. (Wikipedia Commons) Click on pictures to enlarge. Click on captions to view the original pictures.