Har HaMenuchot

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Har HaMenuchot (Hebrew: הר המנוחות, Mount of Respite, Ashkenazi pronunciation Har HaMenuchos) is a famous cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel. Many Jewish notables, both from Israel and the Jewish diaspora, including a great number of famous rabbis, are buried there.

The cemetery was founded in 1951, three years after Israeli independence.

[edit] Famous people buried at Har Hamenuchot

This is an incomplete listing

• Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg, the Tzitz Eliezer
• Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, famous New York City posek
• Rabbi Yitzchak Kadouri, famous Jerusalem Sephardi rabbi of Iraqi background
• Rabbi Aharon Kotler
• Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer
• Rabbi Gedalia Schorr
• Grand Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, the Belzer Rebbe
• The Gaon of Tchebin
• Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
• Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai, the "Chida" (reburied there)
• Rabbi Meir Shapiro
• Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
• Naftali Herz Imber
• Rabbi Menachem Ziemba (reburied there)
• Rabbi Nachman Bulman
• Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg