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Walls of Jerusalem (Oct-1992) #1
Mount Zion
by Ilya Borovok

Mount Zion

Mount Zion (הר צִיּוֹן transliteration: Har Tziyyon) is the name of a hill in Jerusalem just outside the walls of the Old City. The term "Zion" became a synecdoche referring to the entire city of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.
Important sites on Mount Zion are Dormition Abbey, King David's Tomb and the Room of the Last Supper. The Chamber of the Holocaust (Martef HaShoah), the precursor of Yad Vashem is also located on Mount Zion. Another place of interest is the Catholic cemetery where Oskar Schindler, a Righteous Gentile who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews in the Holocaust, is buried.
The winding road leading up to Mount Zion is known as Pope's Way (Derekh Ha'apifyor) because it was paved in honor of the historic visit to Jerusalem of Pope Paul VI in 1964. Between 1948 and 1967, this narrow strip of land was a designated no-man's land between Israel and Jordan. (...)

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