Jerusalem's Pencil Line: 1948–1967
In November 1948, Moshe Dayan and Abdullah el-Tell met in an abandoned house in Musrara and drew a ceasefire line through Jerusalem by hand — Dayan in green wax pencil, el-Tell in red. They never drew the same line, and the gap between the strokes became no man's land. What was meant as a temporary truce hardened into a binding international border that split neighborhoods, families, and a village in two for nineteen years. This episode walks the seven-kilometre City Line — the Mandelbaum Gate, the Mount Scopus exclave, the Pope's Road, the cemeteries that needed contingency plans — and asks…
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