Jerusalem
Ammunition Hill Memorial and Museum
War memorial
Mount Scopus
Off Route1
Jerusalem,
Phone: +972 2 582 8442 / +972 2 582 9392
Fax: +972 2 582 9132
One of the fiercest battles in Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War was fought here by Israeli paratroopers to take the well-fortified Jordanian position that blocked the way to the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University. Visitors can walk along the trenches to imagine the fighting, and can pay their respects to the fallen at the memorial for Battalian 66. The museum offers models and an audio-visual display describing the battle. In the surrounding park, one sometimes encounters Israeli and Jordanian families partaking of a memorial meal in honor of relatives who fell here. There is a small entrance fee.
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