Yemin Moshe
Hillside quarter of stone cottages under a restored windmill outside the old city walls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Yemin Moshe in Jerusalem opens in 1948, when British soldiers climbed a hilltop windmill with orders to blow it apart after fighters turned it into a sniper's post. Sir Moses Montefiore had built the mill in 1857 to draw Jewish families to live outside the crowded Old City walls, though almost no one wanted to until a cholera outbreak made the choice for them. Look up at the plaques on the tower that the soldiers stopped to read.
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