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Middle East Eye
March 16, 2018
... residents of Al-Issawiya neighbourhood in East Jerusalem made their Friday prayer close to an Israeli military checkpoint at the neighbourhood's entrance in protest at Trump's move as well as at the daily invasions and arrests by Israeli security forces. Al-Issawiya is on the eastern slope of Mount ScopusÃâà...
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
March 12, 2018
Over the past few days, work has begun on the infrastructure necessary for the construction of the Jerusalem light rail service's new “Green Line” in the areas of Mount Scopus, Sheikh Jarrah, and the Patt Junction. This will be the light rail's second line, which, like its predecessor, will serve the Jewish andÃâà...
JNS.org
March 9, 2018
(March 9, 2018 / JNS) More than 35,000 runners participated in the annual Jerusalem Marathon on Friday morning, the largest number to date. ... Runners enjoyed pounding the pavement from the Knesset to the Mahane Yehuda outdoor market, Mount Scopus, the Old City of Jerusalem, David's Tower andÃâà...
World Israel News
March 6, 2018
A firebomb thrown at a Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem was the third such attack by Arab terrorists in a week. By: World Israel News Staff. Arab terrorists threw two firebombs at Hadassah Hospital's Mount Scopus campus in Jerusalem Monday night. The bomb caught fire but no one was injured and noÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 2, 2018
Johnny was educated at Mount Scopus Memorial College, was a member of Bnei Akivah and active in the Australian Union of Jewish students. He moved to Israel in 1973, where he completed a BA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and taught at a high school attached to the Hebrew University.
Haaretz
February 7, 2018
The city of Jerusalem and Jerusalem Development Authority are advancing a plan to build a promenade in the Mount of Olives connecting the two Jewish ... The development authority said the promenade aimed “to create a tourism continuum between Mount Scopus and the Mount of Olives, by way of theÃâà...
The New York Review of Books
February 2, 2018
“The two-state solution is over,” Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told reporters, responding to Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. ..... of settlers work in and around Jerusalem; residents of Maale Adumin live less than a ten-minute drive to the Hebrew University in Mount Scopus.
Jewish Journal
December 13, 2017
In the middle of the euphoria and hysteria that greeted last week's U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, it was a story about stolen apples that caught my eye. ... In 1964, when Israel had the chutzpah to have a Hanukkah festival of lights display atop Mount Scopus, which it legally controlled.
Haaretz
October 28, 2017
East Jerusalem's Mount Scopus and, in the foreground, the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, October 26, 2017. ... The original bill called for the full annexation to Israel of the settlements surrounding Jerusalem, but the current version, submitted by MK Yoav Kish (Likud) provides for municipal but not politicalÃâà...
