Word: scopus
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...read Hebrew,” I said. He looked shocked. “I’m Jewish,” I offered in explanation. Gilad was a former officer in the Israeli Defense Force. He had studied at Hebrew University and had lived in the Mount Scopus dorms, next door to the building I had called home last summer.“Let’s meet up,” I suggested. After all, he was mishpacha. Two days later, we met again for services at Tempio Ashkenazita—this time...
JERUSALEM—The campus of Hebrew University is on the tallest hill of this ancient city. The view from Mount Scopus reveals a quiet Jerusalem, far removed from the fierce fighting in the north. Security is tight—it always is—but life and learning continue. Despite the quiet, this is a summer...
...Hadassah, Jews save Arabs and Arabs save Jews. Though the hospital treats and employs mostly Jewish Israelis, Ratrout is one of 10 Palestinian doctors who work at Hadassah's two facilities, one in the Ein Kerem neighborhood (Ratrout's branch) and the other on Mount Scopus. What's more, about 10% of the staff are Arab residents of Israel, and Arab patients and their visitors can be seen in the halls. Though Hadassah Ein Kerem has handled more victims of terrorist attacks than any other Israeli hospital, it stands as a model of integration in the conflict between Israelis...
MIDDLE EAST Death Comes Even to the Safe Places A bomb planted by Islamic militants devastated a crowded cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, killing seven people (of whom five were U.S. citizens) and wounding more than 80. The Mount Scopus campus had been one of the few places in which Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs still mixed, and students had felt safe there. Hamas said the attack was revenge for the assassination of one of its leaders, and the deaths of 14 other people, in Gaza. In response, Israel sent tanks and troops into Nablus...
...caption should have more precisely explained the situation shown in the photograph: "Israeli right-wing student activists hold up their hands, painted in red as a symbol of bloodshed, at a demonstration supporting the cancellation of chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat's lecture at the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem...