From 1948 to 1967, the Mount of Olives was cut off from the rest of Jerusalem by the 1947-48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1949 Armistice Agreements. After Israel regained the region in the Six-Day War, Kalman Mann, then-director general of Hadassah Medical Center, went with a group of rabbis to the cemetery to assess the condition of Szold's grave. They found that it had been paved over by a road built by the Jordanians, who had also vandalized many grave markers. They were able to locate Szold's burial site using a cemetery chart and counting the indentations in the ground. The grave was later rebuilt and remarked with a new stone marker in an official ceremony.