Nachlaot

This guide to Nachlaot in Jerusalem opens in 1869, when Yosef Rivlin left the safety of the Old City walls to settle open, unguarded land nobody else dared sleep on. It follows the six partner families who backed out once night actually fell, the wife who stayed behind inside the walls, and the pattern Rivlin kept repeating afterward, buying raw land, living on it alone, then selling and starting over. Listen for how Jerusalem came to call him the Town-Maker.