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Shaare Zedek Cemetery, Jerusalem

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Shaare Zedek Cemetery, Jerusalem
Shaare Zedek Cemetery, Jerusalem

The Shaare Zedek Cemetery is a small Jewish burial ground located behind the first Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. Originally used by the hospital as farmland for grazing milk cows, the area was converted into a temporary cemetery during the Arab siege of Jerusalem in 1948. Approximately 200 burials were conducted here between March and October of that year. Most graves were transferred to permanent cemeteries after the war, but a handful remain, notably those of several prominent Jerusalem rabbis and the founding director of Shaare Zedek Hospital, Dr. Moshe Wallach.

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Shaare Zedek Cemetery, Jerusalem
Zalman Shazar, Jerusalem מקור ברוך

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