The only memory that exists of the founding event in the history of the Kingdom of Judah, when King David conquered Jerusalem, made it his capital and founded the dynasty and the kingdom, was of the involvement of the “blind and the lame,” and that anyone who struck them had to be purified. In this chapter, I argue that the source of the story’s memory was a tunnel that had water in it, in which a splashing, flowing or dripping sound was heard, and where, according to the memory, David’s warriors were purified after the war. It was the mysterious “צינור” (="water tunnel"?)at the center of the story. This was the seed of the memory preserved in Jerusalem throughout the centuries, when those who lived in Jerusalem or visited it, and regardless of whether the tunnel continued to be used for t...