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  1. Coordinates: 31°46′25.82″N 35°14′35.05″E. The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives, 155 years apart. The map, from 1858, considered the most accurate in existence at the time, showing around 40–50 Jewish graves (marked on the bottom left). The aerial photo, from 2013, is taken from the south; the number of tombs is now around ...

  2. The Mount of Olives is one of three peaks of a mountain ridge which runs for 3.5 kilometres (2.2 miles) just east of the Old City across the Kidron Valley, in this area called the Valley of Josaphat. The peak to its north is Mount Scopus, at 826 metres (2,710 feet), while the peak to its south is the Mount of Corruption, at 747 m (2,451 ft).

  3. Feb 25, 2016 · After the Six Day War of June 1967, interment ceremonies were held in the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives for the civilians and soldiers who were residents of the Old City of Jerusalem and who were killed in the War of Independence of 1948, for S.Y. Agnon and for other public figures. The Jewish cemetery on Mount Scopus divided in two by ...

  4. The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives. The Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives is the largest and most important Jewish cemetery in the world, extending over 250 dunams east of the Temple Mount and constituting in effect a national and religious pantheon for the Jewish people containing the tombs of the illustrious dead of the nation ...

  5. Apr 24, 2024 · Mount of Olives, multi-summit limestone ridge just east of the Old City of Jerusalem and separated from it by the Kidron Valley. Frequently mentioned in the Bible and later religious literature, it is holy to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The peak usually regarded as the Mount of Olives proper is the southern summit, 2,652 feet (808 metres ...

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  6. 31°46′25.82″N 35°14′35.05″E / 31.7738389°N 35.2430694°E The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives is the oldest and most important Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem. Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery Map - West Bank, Palestine

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  8. Apr 25, 2017 · The Jewish Cemetery. The ancient and most important cemetery in Jerusalem is on the Mount of Olives. The Mount was used a burial ground of the Jews of Jerusalem from as far back as the days of the First Temple, and continues to fulfil this function to the present day. During the First and Second Temple Periods the Jews of Jerusalem were buried ...

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