Historical landmark
New Gate
Nineteenth-century gate cut into the Old City walls, its iron doors never rehung since nineteen sixty-seven.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the New Gate in Jerusalem opens on May 14, 1948, hours before a ceasefire, as fighters from three rival Jewish underground groups, the Haganah, the Irgun, and the Stern Gang, worked together for once to target this single iron gate. It follows the demolition charge they set, and traces the gate's stranger backstory: cut into the wall in 1889 at the request of the French consul and Franciscan friars, so pilgrims could walk straight into the Christian Quarter.
This audio guide was created using AI.