Zion Gate is located in the south of the old city of Jerusalem. It was built in 1540 by Suleiman the Great. It is named for the Zion Mountains to the south. Because the tomb of David is located in Mount Zion, it is also called "David Gate". Inside the gate are the Armenian and Jewish districts. On May 13, 1948, the last British army withdrew from Jerusalem and handed the key to Zion Gate to the Jewish leader, Mordechai Weingarten. During the first Middle East War that followed, Palamakh's battle for control of the Jewish region in Zion Gate failed, and today we can still see the dense bullet marks left behind.