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Shalom and Welcome To The Jerusalem Mosaic

at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

You are our visitor since 1-July-1994.
The Jerusalem Mosaic was last updated on 1-july-1995





           Ten measures of beauty were bestowed upon the world;
           nine were taken by Jerusalem.
           and one by the rest of the world.

                (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Kiddushin 49:2)



Jerusalem, with a recorded history of some 4000 years, has been
familiar to many people for a longer period than any other place on
earth.

This is the site of the mystic hill-city which was founded in the third
millennium BCE, and the "Urusalim" which appears in pottery
inscriptions at the beginning of the second millennium BCE.

This is the city of David, who unified the Land of Israel and proclaimed
Jerusalem the capital in the tenth century BCE. It is the city of
Solomon's Temple, and the city where the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah
uttered thoughts which influenced the moral and religious attitudes of
half the human race. 

This was the scene of Jesus' last ministry, and where he was crucified.
This is a city held holy by the Muslim, who believe that Muhammad
ascended to heaven in Jerusalem.

In its antiquity, its tumultuous past, its holiness, its monuments
associated with the giant biblical figures of distant ages, in the sheer
enchantment of its location and the colourful pattern of its daily life,
Jerusalem, the capital of the state of Israel, is perhaps the most 
dramatic city in the world.

Listen to the  Song Of Jerusalem (Jerusalem Of Gold)

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