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Zion Gate was built in July 1540, west of the location of the medieval gate, which was a direct continuation of the Street of the Jews (also known as the Cardo).Six sentry towers were erected in the southern segment of the wall, four of them situated in the Mount Zion section.
The seven gates at the time of Suleiman were, clockwise and by their current name: the Damascus Gate; Herod's Gate; Lions' Gate; Golden Gate; Dung Gate; Zion Gate; and Jaffa Gate. With the re-sealing of the Golden Gate by Suleiman, the number of operational gates was only brought back to seven in 1887, with the addition of the New Gate.
Jaffa Gate (Hebrew: שער יפו, romanized: Sha'ar Yafo; Arabic: باب الخليل, romanized: Bāb al-Khalīl, "Hebron Gate") is one of the seven main open gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. The name Jaffa Gate is currently used for both the historical Ottoman gate from 1538, and for the wide gap in the city wall adjacent to it to the south.
Mount Zion was the closest accessible site to the ancient Jewish Temple. Until East Jerusalem was captured by Israel in the Six-Day War, Israelis would climb to the rooftop of David's Tomb to pray. [16] The winding road leading up to Mount Zion is known as Pope's Way (Derekh Ha'apifyor).
Paratroopers at the Western Wall, by David Rubinger. Paratroopers at the Western Wall is an photograph taken on 7 June 1967, by David Rubinger.Shot from a low angle, the photograph depicts three Israeli paratroopers framed against the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, shortly after its capture by Israeli forces in the Six-Day War.
'Valley of the Rebab'), [1] [2] is a historic valley surrounding Jerusalem from the west and southwest [3] that has acquired various theological connotations, including as a place of divine punishment, in Jewish eschatology. The valley surrounds the Old City of Jerusalem and the adjacent Mount Zion from the west and south.
A video obtained by CNN shows two young ultra-Orthodox men spitting at, swearing at and insulting a Christian priest near the Zion Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday evening.
[21] [22] The City of David was the ancient epicenter of Jerusalem and whose boundaries stretched from the Temple Mount in the north, [22] thence southward to the Pool of Siloam, [22] including the area marking the Kidron brook in the east and the adjacent dale in the west. [22] Its area is about 50 dunams (ca. 12.3 acres). [22]