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Jerusalem Before the Six Day War (1949-1967)
At the end of the War of Independence, Jerusalem was divided between Israel and Jordan.
Armistice lines were determined in November 1948 by Moshe Dayan, Commander of the
Jerusalem district, and Abdallah el-Tal, Legion Commander of the Jerusalem front. Between
the lines drawn up by the two commanders, areas were left that were defined as no-man's land.
The area around Armon Hanatziv was used as UN territory, and Mount Scopus became
an Israeli enclave that contained the Hebrew University, Hadassah Hospital and, officially,
the village of Issawiyya. This map was adopted in April 1949 by the sides in an armistice
agreement signed in Rhodes. The westernmost point between the two parts of the city was
at the edge of the Musrara neighborhood, near the house of the Mandelbaum family, and
thus was called "Mandelbaum Gate."
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