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A view from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, with the Old City and Temple Mount in the background, November 17, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
February 12, 2026, 6:01 am
Israel’s generous burial policy will become unsustainable as population ages, study warns
With annual death toll expected to double by mid-2040s, report from Taub Center calls for rethinking approach to burials, including adopting higher-density practices to prevent ‘cities of the dead’
By Zev Stub
A gardener tends to the lawn between the tombstones at the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery -- commonly known as the British War Cemetery and in which are interred the remains of 3,217 Allied soldiers who died during World War I -- in Gaza City on September 28, 2022. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)
February 5, 2026, 11:59 am
IDF said to have damaged Gaza cemetery containing graves of Allied troops from world wars
Guardian report shows destruction, earthworks at graveyard east of Gaza City; IDF says area was ‘an active combat zone,’ contained tunnels used by Hamas terrorists
By ToI Staff
A view from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, with the Old City and Temple Mount in the background, November 17, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
December 16, 2025, 9:35 am
The world’s oldest Jewish cemetery is getting an upgrade. Not everyone is at peace with it
Plans for a major visitor center at the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem promise education and security, but opponents say it’s a right-wing project designed to push out Arab neighbors
By Zev Stub
Palestinian children sit on a grave near makeshift tents for displaced people that were set up in a cemetery in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
November 3, 2025, 12:45 pm
In Gazan cemeteries, some evacuees live among the dead
While some have returned home following the ceasefire, others no longer have homes to return to or lived in neighborhoods now controlled by the IDF
By AP and ToI Staff
Amy Koplow, executive director of the Hebrew Free Burial Association, and Efrem Reis, assistant director, look through a list of donor names at the association’s Maiden Lane headquarters in New York City, June 2025. (Cathryn J. Prince)
October 31, 2025, 1:29 pm
The haunting history of the Jewish burial society that cares for NYC’s lost and forgotten
Since 1888, the Hebrew Free Burial Association has ensured that in the city that never sleeps, the poor and huddled masses enter their eternal rest with compassion and dignity
By Cathryn J. Prince
The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance block at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens, New York, has graves going back to the early 1900s. Visitors to the cemetery can take a self-guided audio tour to learn more about the history there. (Cathryn J. Prince)
April 12, 2025, 1:23 am
Sages, celebrities, veterans, crooks: Take a NY cemetery’s Jewish walks of fame – and infamy
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens was founded in 1903 and holds over 231,000 graves. Its Legacy Foundation offers audio tours teaching visitors about the contributions of those interred
By Cathryn J. Prince
Polish archaeology students at work excavating a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, September 2024. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
March 1, 2025, 4:09 pm
Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access their roots – until now
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustrative - A Palestinian woman prays by a relative's tomb as others bury their dead following overnight Israeli airstrikes, at a cemetery in east Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 26, 2024. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
April 9, 2024, 3:13 pm
Unable to travel to northern Gaza, Christians bury their dead in Muslim cemeteries
Worker at Muslim cemetery in Rafah area says he’s doing what’s necessary to ‘protect God’s creations on this earth’ amid ongoing war, mass displacement
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Screen capture from video showing a damaged cemetery in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip. (CNN/Reuters. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 21, 2024, 9:22 am
IDF said to heavily damage 16 Gaza cemeteries during military operations
CNN report relies on satellite imagery, heavy armored vehicle tracks, and eyewitness accounts including from reporters who were driven through a graveyard in an APC
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Vandalized headstones at the ancient Jewish cemetery of Námestovo, Slovakia, in December 2019. (Courtesy of ZCN via JTA)
November 24, 2023, 4:25 am
Authorities launch probe after at least 85 Jewish graves damaged in Belgian cemetery
Gravedigger in city of Charleroi discovers damage to Jewish section of cemetery; mayor: ‘Place chosen, theft of many Stars of David leave little doubt of antisemitic intentions’
By AFP and ToI Staff
A fence in the area of the Beit She'an New Cemetery where non-Jews and people who died by suicide are buried. (Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Lesri)
November 16, 2023, 6:05 pm
After Oct. 7 victim buried outside cemetery, fence separating non-Jews lowered
Move follows outcry by media and lawmakers over the Beit She’an burial of an immigrant from Russia whose father is Jewish but whose mother isn’t
By Canaan Lidor
The collapsed wall (left) and a headstone at the Samaritan cemetery in Tel Aviv, pictured on Aug. 3, 2023. (Courtesy Ben Sedaka)
August 4, 2023, 3:03 am
Gravestones smashed in Samaritan section of Tel Aviv cemetery
Leaders of tiny faith community tell police incident was premeditated hate crime; separately, woman’s picture on Jerusalem gravestone blacked out, apparently by Haredi extremists
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: The Nahariya cemetery in 2019 (iStock)
January 25, 2023, 9:58 pm
Burial worker circumcises body in northern Israel without family’s consent
Colleague claims manager told religious volunteer to perform ritual ‘without thinking twice’; head of burial society denies incident occurred
By Avner Hofstein
A damaged Jewish grave is seen at the Jewish cemetery in the city of Aden in southern Yemen. (Twitter/Kan News)
August 22, 2022, 9:22 pm
Yemen restores Jewish cemetery, remainder of a once booming, now long-gone community
Restoration of the 160-year-old burial ground that had been neglected for years began with civil organizations, before being picked up by government
By ToI Staff
A number marks a Jewish grave, left, at the former Central Islip Psychiatric Center on New York's Long Island. A stone at right was added after the hospital began working with a Jewish burial society. (Patricia Desrochers/Touro Law Center/ via JTA)
December 10, 2021, 3:56 am
Families demand names where numbers mark Jewish graves at former NY psych hospital
In the cemetery of the now-defunct Central Islip Psychiatric Center, markers for the interred lack names. A nearby Jewish law school is helping relatives identify loved ones
By Stewart Ain
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