Me’al Pisgat Har Hatzofim - Ofra Haza

Me’al Pisgat Har Hatzofim (From The Summit Of Mount Scopus) - Ofra Haza on the Dan Shilon Show with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Former Israeli Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres z“l (1923-2016) and Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir z“l (1915-2012); 1998. Host/Presenter Dan Shilon introduces the song as ’Me’al Migdal Har Hatzofim’ (’From The Tower Of Mount Scopus’). 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