Word: scopus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with flames. Two armored columns snaked out and around the Old City of Jerusalem. Within its ancient walls are nestled the holy sites of three world religions, and Israeli gunners and bombers had carefully spared it. The northern column fought its way to the commanding height of Mount Scopus. The southern column swept south, moving inexorably from hill to hill despite stubborn Jordanian Arab League resistance, until the Old City was encircled...
...grass grows wild on Mount Scopus in Arab Jordan. Rain drips through the roofs of empty classrooms...
Once a fortnight, by United Nations authorization, a truck enters Mount Scopus, loads books from among the 250,000 that remain in the abandoned library, returns via the Mandelbaum Gate and takes its cargo to a striking new 250-acre campus that crowns the Judean Hills of Israel. There, in buildings made of pink limestone quarried on the site, Hebrew University is in the midst of a flourishing rebirth...
Jordan recently protested furiously when Israel hoisted a Goliath-sized, illuminated Star of David on Jerusalem's demilitarized Mount Scopus; Israelis complain that, under the armistice, they should not be barred from Arab Jerusalem's historic Wailing Wall. At last count, the backlog of unsettled disputes totaled a staggering 37,340. One of the few Arab-Israeli compromises: agreement to let a lonely Roman Catholic Trappist monk, one Father Marcel, continue cultivating his vineyards in the no man's land near Tel Aviv...