1967 Arab–Israeli War in the context of "Borders of Israel"

Mount Scopus is a mountain located in Jerusalem with an elevation of 826 meters (2,710 ft) above sea level. Between the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, it was an internationally protected exclave of Israel within Jordan, as it was geographically part of Jordan's East Jerusalem, but politically part of Israel's West Jerusalem. It is home to the main campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical Center. Since the collapse of the City Line in 1967, the area now lies within Jerusalem's Israeli municipal boundaries.
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The history of the Jews in Lebanon encompasses the presence of Jews in present-day Lebanon stretching back to biblical times. While Jews have been present in Lebanon since ancient times, their numbers had dwindled during the Muslim era. Through the medieval ages, Jewish people often faced persecution, but retained their religious and cultural identity.

In the early 20th century, for a brief period under the French Mandate of Lebanon and 1926 Constitution of Lebanon, the Jewish community was constitutionally protected. However, after 1948, the security of Jews remained fragile, and the main synagogue in Beirut was bombed in the early 1950s. In the wake of the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, there was mass emigration of around 6,000 Lebanese Jews from Lebanon to Israel and Western countries.

In Jerusalem, the "City Line" was a 7-kilometre (4.3 mi) segment of the Green Line that divided the city between Israel and Jordan as part of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, which ended the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. On one side was West Jerusalem, which was part of Israel, and on the other side was East Jerusalem, which was part of the Jordanian-annexed West Bank; East Jerusalem also included the Old City and the Israeli exclave of Mount Scopus. Additionally, a "Demilitarized Area" surrounding the British Government House was controlled by the United Nations. The City Line had numerous fortifications and obstacles on both sides, and various buildings in the city that were situated along the boundary were used as military posts. This arrangement was in place until the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, when Israel captured the entirety of Jerusalem. In 1988, six years before the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, the Jordanian government formally renounced the country's territorial claim to Jerusalem in favour of supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state, though the Jordanian Waqf continues to exercise authority over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City. Pursuant to the two-state solution laid out by the Oslo Accords, East Jerusalem has been sought by the Palestine Liberation Organization as the capital city of the State of Palestine.