Rare Place for Jews and Arabs to Meet
Before today. the current conflict had been felt on campus, not only in the sharpening political debate but also in the declining enrollment of Americans in the Rothberg International School, steps from the site of the bombing in the Frank Sinatra, which killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80.

Opened in 1925, Hebrew University has grown like the Jewish nationalism it sought to promote, and its history has paralleled Israel's own turbulent development. From 33 faculty members and 141 students, it has grown to include 1,400 senior faculty members and 23,000 full-time students spread over several campuses.

The original campus, where the attack took place today, is on Mount Scopus, built on an estate acquired in 1918. Although Muslim and Christian religious figures attended the ceremony to lay the foundation stones, the campus later became an isolated Jewish redoubt in largely Arab East Jerusalem.
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