Virtual Tour of Jerusalem with Jewish History Soundbites Host Yehuda Geberer: The Davidka Story

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and this is really the story of your july until today is that we have the old and we have the new on one hand we have the old the old buildings the old story and the old the old way of doing things and the tradition and to keep things the way they always were that's one path that yerushalayim takes from then until today and then we have the new let's change let's build it up let's do things differently and these two paths converge sometimes and these two paths converge sometimes they complement each other sometimes there's conflict and we'll see how those two paths actually come come together to build up the yerushalayim that we see we're now going to go to our first stop which gives this whole key car its name kikar davidka and we'll start over here come with me this way and what we have is this no any questions until now any questions quick quick quick check to the zoom no questions yet okay and we'll get back to the birthdays soon so the first stop let me see look at this impressive looking artillery piece but don't let it fool you it's not impressive at all this artillery tillery piece was called the davidka the name the guy who built it his name was david so they called it the davidka and he built it to for the hagana to use

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1. 0:00and this is really the story of your july until today is that we have the…
2. 0:30and these two paths converge sometimes they complement each other sometimes there's conflict and we'll see…
3. 1:37and he built it to for the hagana to use the palmach to use during the…
4. 2:39but he using czechoslovakia as a proxy he sells planes to the new country of israel…
5. 3:10through stalin what are they going to do with these planes who's exactly flying them so…
6. 4:12as if he's talking a story that's like too too crazy to even be believed and…
7. 5:17he had nothing to do with it with with judaism he had nothing to do with…
8. 5:48it yeah that's it you gotta go and now that story has nothing to do with…
9. 6:51with the davitka so how can we put it in such a prominent place and to…
10. 7:51that can do a lot of damage very quick and here they shoot the davidka and…

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