April 3 1948 – 4 Nisan 5708
A convoy of trucks carrying doctors, nurses, and medical equipment to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was ambushed by Arab troops. Seventy-nine people were killed. The hospital and university campus was a Jewish enclave surrounded by Arab neighborhoods, and as such was
constantly under threat after the UN vote on partition in November 1947. The hospital was largely evacuated after the massacre and closed in May 1948, only weeks after the Jewish state was declared.
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