Sha'ar HaGai

[2] The largest bell for the church of the Augusta Victoria Foundation, initiated by Wilhelm during his 1898 visit and built between 1907 and 1910, weighed six tonnes and required that the road be widened and paved.

[3] After World War I, Todros Warshavsky, a Jew born in Jerusalem in 1877, leased the khan and moved there with his family, offering travelers light meals and care of animals.

The Palmach's 10th (Harel) Brigade under the command of Lt. Col. Yitzhak Rabin, future prime minister of Israel, managed to capture Bab al-Wad itself, but the road section west of it, controlled from Latrun, remained in Jordanian hands until 1967, cutting off this main access route to Jerusalem.

The 1967 work of Israeli sculptor Naomi Henrik is built of stainless steel and concrete and consists of a cluster of tubes resembling rockets[7] that point towards Jerusalem.

The song has been performed by numerous famous Israeli singers, such as Yafa Yarkoni, Shoshana Damari, Shlomo Gronich, and Harel Skaat.

Road to Jerusalem at Bab al-Wad seen from Arab Legion positions at Latrun , 1948
Outpost 21 on Shayarot Ridge [HE] over Sha'ar HaGai - on the right is Highway 1, and on the left is Burma Road
Outpost 21 on Shayarot Ridge [ HE ] over Sha'ar HaGai - on the right is Highway 1 , and on the left is Burma Road
Old armored vehicles (" sandwich trucks ") at Sha'ar HaGai
Caravanserai later run by the Warshavsky family, 1910
Bab al-Wad in 1917
The Maqam (shrine) of Imam Ali, at Bab al-Wad, photographed about 1934-39
A bulldozer tows a truck on the " Burma Road " to Jerusalem, June 1948
Sha'ar HaGai Khan [ he ] museum