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 alphabetical listing
- Rabbi Baruch Ashlag
- Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag
- Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai, (reburied there)
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
- Rabbi Nachman Bulman
- Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
- Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
- Naftali Herz Imber
- Rabbi Yitzchak Kadouri
- Rabbi Aharon Kotler
- Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer
- Grand Rabbi Aharon Rokeach
- Rabbi Gedalia Schorr
- Rabbi Meir Shapiro
- Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro
- The Gaon of Tchebin
- Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg
- Rabbi Menachem Ziemba (reburied there)
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