Who Built Jerusalem's Old City Walls?

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 9, 2026 · 27m

Daniel walks past Jaffa Gate and Damascus Gate every day and wanted to know who actually built the walls he's looking at — not the Temple Mount retaining walls, but the four-kilometer circuit around the Old City. The answer is Ottoman: Suleiman the Magnificent, roughly 1537 to 1541, which makes these walls more recent than a Shakespeare play. This episode digs into why a sultan who understood artillery better than anyone built a wall too thin to stop cannon, why Mount Zion was deliberately left outside the line, and how a Jewish financier in Egypt paid for the whole thing. Plus: the execution…