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| Mount Scopus looks down on Jerusalem from the Eastern ridge across the Mount of Olives. For almost 2,000 years the Jewish people yearned for Jerusalem from their exile in the Diaspora. Even after the establishment of the modern State of Israel, the Old City with its holy Jewish sites of the Temple Mount, the Kotel – the outer Western Wall of the sanctuary – and Mount Scopus itself, were beyond reach, under Jordanian dominion. Mount Scopus was the site of the original Hadassah hospital and part of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that became an embattled enclave during the war of Israel's Independence, with the medical staff undergoing a long siege, during which many convoys tried to reach it despite suffering heavy casualties. From 1949-1967, it survived as an Israeli enclave in Jordanian territory, supplied by weekly convoys that reached it under UN protection via the Mamilla gate in the wall that separated modern West Jerusalem from East Jerusalem. This song reflects the special place Mount Scopus held in people's hearts, and the language reflects the Jewish people's traditional expressions of yearning for peace, the holy sanctuary, and the peace of Jerusalem. Many biblical songs about Jerusalem have been set to music by modern Israeli composers, but there are also modern classics from the 1960s and from after the Six Day War in 1967 - of which this song is one of the best-known and best-loved. |
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| Words transliterated and translated by George Jakubovits of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
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Special thanks to Gila Ansell Brauner for the translator notes |
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