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  1. With the British occupation
  2. of Palestine in 1917, Jerusa-
  3. lem became the capital of the
  4. British Mandate area. Due to
  5. the city's new-found impor-
  6. tance, the seat of the high
  7. commissioner of all of Brit-
  8. ish Palestine was placed in
  9. Jerusalem, at the Augusta
  10. Victoria building atop
  11. Mount Scopus.
  12.