Natural feature
Mount Scopus
Hilltop overlook and university campus, once a besieged Israeli enclave cut off within Jordanian territory for nineteen years.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mount Scopus in Jerusalem starts on the morning of April 13, 1948, when a convoy of doctors, nurses and students crawled toward the hospital here and a remote-detonated mine tore into the lead truck. It follows the hours of gunfire that trapped the convoy on the road below, and the British troops stationed nearby who held back rather than intervene. From there it traces what this hilltop, hospital and university became for years afterward, cut off inside land no longer under Israeli control.
This audio guide was created using AI.