Mount Scopus
Mount Scopus (Hebrew: הַר הַצּוֹפִים , "Mount of the Watchmen/ Sentinels"; Arabic: جبل المشارف , lit. "Mount Lookout", or "Mount of the Scene/Burial Site", or ) is a mountain (elevation: above sea level) in northeast Jerusalem. Between the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the Six-Day War in 1967, the peak of Mount Scopus with the Hebrew University campus and Hadassah Hospital was a UN-protected Israeli exclave within Jordanian-administered territory. Today, Mount Scopus lies within the municipal bou…