Mount Zion Trench, Jerusalem (Free Historical Exhibit)
Channel: Daniel Rosehill
Date: 2022-01-18

The Mount Zion Tunnel is a restored tunnel used by the Combat Engineering Corps (CEC) to move supplies to Mount Zion when the Eastern half of the city was controlled by Jordan and Jordanian snipers would routinely shoot at Israeli forces (alongside the better known cable car).

According to Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am, writing in the Times of Israel:

"The answer [to the Jordanian obstruction to logistics] was to construct a trench that descended from below an aqueduct in the 19th-century Mishkenot Sha’ananim neighborhood, crossed the valley, and moved up inside the slopes of Mount Zion. Its walls were made of cement, and it was partially covered by a tin roof topped by a layer of dirt — steep, narrow, and full of twists and turns, the trench had to be hidden from sight."

The project was funded by the Ministry of Jerusalem at a cost of NIS 2.5 million.

00:00 - Atmospheric footage outside entrance to Trench
00:05 - Narration about the Trench and its history
02:50 - Navigating downhill through Trench
04:16 - Emerging on other side of Trench

Article:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/get-into-the-trenches-of-israeli-history-at-the-revamped-mt-zion-supply-tunnel/

Google Maps location:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mount+Zion+Trench/@31.7737498,35.2258229,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x1503295f4870a867:0x17618e212079f6cb!2sMount+Zion+Trench!8m2!3d31.7737498!4d35.2269172!3m4!1s0x1503295f4870a867:0x17618e212079f6cb!8m2!3d31.7737498!4d35.2269172

By: Daniel Rosehill 

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