Word: scopus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into scholarship. Having mastered Yiddish and Hebrew, he delved deep into Jewish culture, became a Zionist. In 1922, after being shipwrecked on the way, he landed in Palestine. There he decided to stay for the rest of his life. In 1925, when Jewish and British notables gathered on Mount Scopus to dedicate Hebrew University, he was made its first chancellor...
...aura of repose and settled dignity. Built entirely of a time defying, beige and yellow tinted stone, the newest buildings seem as old as the oldest, and the most ancient houses, no older than the now. And when the city is seen from the heights of Mount Scopus, sleeping under the brilliant summer sun, the vision is breathtaking...