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Tomb of King David on Mount Zion Har HaMenuhot New: Har Menuchas: Jewish cemetery: tombstone images online. A fee charged. [April 2010] Jerusalem War Cemetery On Mount Scopus: While every stone lists the person's regiment, some do not provide first name. The serial number and rank can be used to get a complete record from the British Ministry of Defense. One reaches the cemetery by driving toward Hadassah Hospital. The cemetery is located on the left side of the road (the same side as the hospital) about fifty meters before reaching the hospital entrance. In use 1917-1918, the cemetery is extremely well maintained. Probably the British Consulate in Jerusalem or the Ministry of Defense in London can provide information about upkeep details. Approximate size: about 2000 acres. Most of the graves are of non-Jews. The Jewish section is located at the far left-hand corner of the cemetery with 23 Jewish graves. Location in cemetery (Rows are listed from front to back A, B, C, D, E, F. The first row starts in the middle of the cemetery. Columns are listed from left to right 1, 2, 3, and 4. The first column is at left-hand cemetery fence. Sign at entrance is in English, Hebrew and Arabic: The land on which this cemetery stands is the free gift of the people of Palestine for the perpetual resting place of those of the allied armies who fell in the War Of 1914-1918 and are honored here. Source:
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[date?] Mount Herzl: Graves are located in the non-military sections. The cemetery is open during daylight hours, daily. I translated the names and other information and converted any dates from the Hebrew calendar. Mt. Herzl also contains a large military cemetery and a museum dedicated to Theodore Herzl. Great Leaders of the Nation Section: This is the burial place of most prime ministers and presidents of the State Of Israel and some others. Three notable exceptions were David Ben Gurion (Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev), Menahem Begin (on the Mount of Olives), and Chaim Weizmann (Rehovot.) The dates are based on the Hebrew dates and so may be off by a year. Zionist Leaders near Herzl's tomb include Jabotinsky in Great Leaders of the Nation Section. Zev Jabotinsky died in exile in the United States after being expelled from the Land of Israel by the British. He demanded to be reburied in Israel only when a sovereign Jewish government could do so. The first sovereign Jewish government was headed by Jabotinsky's arch rival David Ben Gurion, who was not one to forget a grudge just because his opponent was dead, and refused to order the reburial. When Levi Eshkol succeeded Ben Gurion, the Israeli government finally had Jabotinsky's body reinterred in Jerusalem.] Source: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it who said, "The general rule is the more written on the tombstone, the less important the person was." [date?] Mount of Olives: "New Group to Protect, Restore Vandalized Mount of Olives" by Malkah Fleisher. "In the wake of serious vandalism and violence in the famous and ancient Jewish cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount of Olives, a group of leaders and activists have teamed up to protect and refurbish the heritage site and bolster it as a part of a united Jerusalem. ... Victims on the Mount of Olives include the living and the dead. Not only have graves been desecrated, with tombstones destroyed, stolen, and defecated upon, but mourners and visitors who come to pay their respects in the oldest and largest Jewish cemetery in the world have been the target of rock attacks by local Arab youth. ... Those who are interested in helping protect and restore the Mount of Olives are encouraged to contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . [November 2010] Jewish cemetery: tombstone images online. A fee charged. [April 2010] Har HaZeitim (Mount of Olives): Very old. Traditional as a sacred burial ground. Asher Lev Brisk made a compilation of the cemetery sites on Mount of Olives up to year 1907. Hard copy available at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Manny Hillman, 22 Bayview Ave. Blue Point, New York 11715-1711 (516)-363-6787 has a xerox copy. [date?] Helkat Mehokek Section: The earliest inscription dates from 1646. The inscriptions listed by Brisk cover graves from the top part of the Mount of Olives Cemetery, a part that was totally destroyed under Jordanian rule (1948-1967) to make room for the building of a hotel and a road. The destruction of the tombstones thereby makes this book the only source for some of this information. Some of the information can be found in records of the various Hevrot Kadisha in Jerusalem. The database in English and Hebrew. [June 2009] The Israel Genealogical Society has placed an index to burials at the Mount of Olives cemetery at their web site. The source is the book, “Helkat Mehokek,” which was published in 1913. It is a bi-lingual (Hebrew-English) searchable database of when complete will be 200,000-300,000 tombstones, mostly covering the period between 1740–1906, although the earliest inscription dates from 1646. The database was originally made available at the 2004 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy on CD. Hebrew version. (The actual search function is at the very bottom of each of the pages named above. These pages start with a lengthy description of the history of the index followed by guidelines for using it. Unfortunately, this lengthy description is displayed again on the search results page. Scroll down the page to find the results.) Source Nu? What's New? (Avotanu.com) [June 21, 2009] Sanhedria: Old. The tombs of the Sanhedrin, the courts and judges of Israel during the days of the Second Temple. Sheikh Bader: Old Next to old Shaare Zedeck Hospital. Old: BURIAL SOCIETIES Burial Societies are listed separately and indicate the cemeteries that they use as follows:
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