Mount Scopus
mountain in East Jerusalem
Episodes
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#5497: Mandelbaum Gate: Inside Jerusalem's Divided CrossingFor 19 years, one narrow seam connected two hostile halves of Jerusalem. Here's how the Mandelbaum Gate actually worked.Main topic -
#5531: Crayon Lines and Custom Posts: How Border Precision Creates AbsurdityA wax pencil drawn across a 1948 map became Jerusalem's binding border. Ghajar's line is precise but unmarked. What makes a border real? -
#5530: Jerusalem's Pencil Line: 1948–1967Two commanders drew a ceasefire line in wax pencil in 1948. It became a city's border for nineteen years. -
#5496: Taking Down Jerusalem's 7km Border, Street by StreetBarbed wire, minefields, and a wax-pencil line: how Jerusalem's seven-kilometre border was physically torn down after 1967. -
#5495: Musrara: Growing Up on Jerusalem's Pencil-Drawn BorderHow a border drawn with wax pencils in 1948 split Musrara's homes in two — and shaped the neighborhood that raised the Israeli Black Panthers. -
#5684: Who Built the Dome of the Rock?The stones are documented. The dirt underneath them has never been dug. Why the Temple Mount is archaeology's biggest open question. -
#5683: How a Handshake Became the Temple Mount Status QuoNo treaty, no law, no signature — just Moshe Dayan's oral agreement with the Waqf, still governing the Mount 59 years later.