so, this would be a wonderful place, say, to shelter a flock a night or to store grain after the summer perfectly no risk of damp. and for a young woman giving birth, no drafts. a trip to the holy land is as much a journey of emotion as it is distance. 2,000 years after the birth of christ, there is so much sadness here. the little town where the baby was wrapped in swaddling clothes is now itself wrapped in barbed wire. where the shepherds stood guard over their sheep, there are guard towers now and gun-toting soldiers. yet it is possible to look past today s troubles. just seeing the historic sites of the bible inspires awe. to walk the streets where jesus walked, to gaze on the landscapes he saw, to touch the stones that were standing when he passed by brings on a
very preliminary stages of determining exactly what happened. what happened would take time to piece together. all authorities knew at this point was that at 5:30 a.m. on saturday, june 6th, routine bed checks turned up only lumps of clothing under the sheets. the two prisoners were missing. they weren t actual dummies, but they were they had clothing on, and it looked like people were sleeping in the bunks with a sweat shirt hoodie on. how could they have disappeared? after all, this is a maximum security prison, there are visual bed checks every two hours throughout the night, and guard towers high above the prison walls.
to piece together. all authorities knew at this point was that at 5:30 a.m. on saturday, june 6th, routine bed checks turned up only lumps of clothing under the sheets. the two prisoners were missing. they weren t actual dummies, but they were they had clothing on, and it looked like people were sleeping in the bunks with a sweat shirt hoodie on. how could they have disappeared? after all, this is a maximum security prison, there are visual bed checks every two hours throughout the night, and guard towers high above the prison walls. but as authorities began to take a closer look, details soon emerged of a stunning escape not over the prison wall, but underneath it. a search revealed there was a hole cut out of the back of the cell through which these inmates escaped.
reflected in the nation s prisons. translator: i m a bedouin. you have to respect all the customs. even if it s to die for the custom. reporter: it s a place where muslims are held with jews. where organizational crime families challenge correctional staff for authority. where nothing is taken for granted. translator: there was an event where a motorcycle passed by and threw a grenade in the direction of one of the guard towers. now three israeli prisons open their doors to our cameras. we reveal unexpected sights inside.
week. in most instances, they do use some kind of object. it s either a shif or sometimes even a shaving razor. but there s another factor at rimonim that keeps staff on constant alert. a violent inmate population mixed with political and religious tensions of the middle east makes for a potentially incendiary combination. translator: a few years ago there was an event when a motorcyclist threw a grenade in the direction of one of the guard towers on the edge of the prison. we found out one of the inmates wasn t happy with the treatment he was receiving so he gave the order to one of his henchmen to throw the grenade. translator: this is supposed to be the declaration of the palestinian state. we have residents from the occupied territories here as well as arabs from israel and something can develop between the arabs and the jews in the wing. we have wings that are mixed with both minorities, and this can be the start of it.