"Time Elevator" Jerusalem the attraction of new ones. In fact it is just a short movie with special effects, but interesting: for more than thirty minutes before the audience is all three-thousand-year history of Jerusalem.

The attraction is located in Beit Agron, Agron House, named after an Israeli journalist, the founder of the newspaper "Palestine Post (now the Jerusalem Post and the Jerusalem mayor Gershon Agron. The building houses the offices of the government press, and in a special room – the "time Elevator".

This is an unusual and unforgettable experience while watching the movie chairs sway and move in six directions, viewers on the splashes of water (the real ones) the wind blows (true), breaks out the flame (fake). All effects are carefully synchronized with what is happening on the screen to the audience it seemed that they were flying over Jerusalem. However, if the visitor thinks he can immerse themselves in a historical context without having to constantly shook, need to inform us in advance – there are a number of fixed Seating.

The screenplay is written by historians and archaeologists, tightly put in bright dramatic footage of the history of Jerusalem from king David to the six day war 1967: construction and destruction of the First and Second Temples, the Roman occupation, birth of Christianity, the presence of Byzantines, crusaders and Muslims in the Holy Land, the creation of the state of Israel. Viewers as if falling in the time Elevator in an ancient era, where they will guide named Shalem – and he will lead the audience through the millennia. His role was played by Chaim Topol – Israeli actor, who gained worldwide fame for her role as Tevye the milkman in the musical based on the works of Sholem Aleichem, "Fiddler on the roof". The spectators are given headphones with voice over in several languages, including Russian.

Impressions of the attraction among tourists are very different. Many people leave unhappy – say, expensive, and the effects are designed for children. But children do tend to love it. Perhaps, tourists need to tune in to what a visit to the "time Elevator" most useful to the younger generation. And better bring there children to guided tours of Jerusalem – then they will be more interesting to remember everything they learned in the movie.