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today this is not so common. Let me tell you a story. Everyone in here has been to Kik Shabas right? Do you know how it got that name? It's a that's Yeah. So you're a little older than Yeah. It's a kar that that is in the you know it's in the center today it's in the center of now you have to wind back the clock to the 1950s 48 4950 and keep in mind was tiny compared to what we know now all the extra parts of did not exist didn't exist ended at the end of you know it was the old city which by you know it was the old city which by the end of the war in 1948 did not belong to Israel anymore was controlled by the Jordanians by the by the Jordanian legion um Mammaul was no man's land full of bobwires and mines. Um some of the like the famous landmarks that everyone's been to everyone knows about Pash didn't exist and [clears throat] Shamgar which is down M is which is today some of the most beautiful real estate in together with Gab Madish Gassid would say that's the same thing. Um but you know it's it's one of the most highly developed beautiful areas of most highly developed beautiful areas of was the primary military base of the IDF of the Hagana at that point in in Jerusalem. Now during 1948 1949 as the frontline battles were by the old city the IDF would come through me with their trucks >> every single day dozens maybe hundreds of times that was the main route to get back and forth to now when the war started winding down in 1948 uh 1949 I'm sorry 1949 so many of the people who lived in the started petitioning that
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