Mount Scopus
Jerusalem
For Hebrew University Mount Scopus campus, take bus no. 4A, 9, or 28 from downtown West Jerusalem.
From Sheikh Jarrah (on Nablus Road), the road heads past the Mount Scopus Hotel and proceeds, gradually curving, past Shepherds Hotel. At the bend in Mount Scopus Road, to your left, you'll see the Jerusalem War Cemetery, the resting place for British World War I dead. You are now on Mount Scopus-Har Hatsofim, which means "Mount of Observation." It was here that the Roman armies of Titus and Vespasian camped in A.D. 70 and observed the city under siege as they planned their final attack. About 100 yards down the ridge, you will find the Mount Scopus Hadassah Hospital on the left. The Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, which opened on April 1, 1925, is now one of the largest institutions of higher learning in the Middle East. It is mostly housed in a vast fortresslike megacomplex designed by David Resnik. The design seems to reflect the university's past experience. At the end of the War of Independence in 1949, the cease-fire lines found Israeli defenders still holding out at the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital, two important Jewish institutions deep in the heart of Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem. For the next 19 years, these two bastions were resupplied by monthly Red Cross convoys, and a new Hadassah Hospital and Hebrew University had to be built in West Jerusalem. Since 1967, the hospital and campus have been restored to their original functions and greatly enlarged. From the Truman Research Institute (a pink stone building) there's a sweeping view of both the New and Old cities. Tours are Sunday to Friday at 11am from the Sherman Building.More attractions in Jerusalem
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The Western Wall
Ophel Archeological Park
Mount Zion
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Dung Gate, Silwan (the City of David) & Ophel Park
Via Dolorosa
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Street of the Chain
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Yemin Moshe
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German Colony & Baka
Rehavia-Talbeyah
Ein Kerem
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Valley of Kidron
Damascus Gate & The Bazaars
Church of the Holy Sepulcher at Golgotha
Church of Saint Anne
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
Ammunition Hill Memorial and Museum
Bloomfield Science Museum
L. A. Mayer Memorial Museum of Islamic Art
The Bible Lands Museum
Israel Museum
Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art
Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Museum
Skirball Museum of Biblical Archeology
Museum of the Seam
The Museum of Taxes
Underground Prisoners Museum
Mount Herzl
Yad VaShem Memorial and Holocaust Museum
Beit Ticho (Ticho House)
Chagall Windows at Hadassah Medical Center
Hebrew University
Heikhal Shlomo
Jerusalem Artists' House and Old Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Model of Ancient Jerusalem
Parliament (Knesset)
Russian Compound
Sanhedrian Tombs
Supreme Court Building
YMCA
The Garden Tomb
Saint George's Cathedral
Rockefeller Archeological Museum
Tombs of the Kings
Zedekiah's Cave
The Time Elevator
The Tisch Family Zoological Gardens
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