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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Har Hamenuhot

Family and friends attend the funeral of IDF soldier Ori Mordecai Shany at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, October 10, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
October 10, 2023, 11:56 pm
Across Israel, mourners bury the dead as nation reels from still-climbing toll
Lone soldier Sgt. Benjamin Loeb laid to rest in Jerusalem; Ashdod resident Izabella Gandlin eulogized at her funeral instead of celebrating her wedding: ‘My beautiful angel’
By Amy Spiro
Family and friends attend the funeral of Ronen Hanania, who was killed in a shooting attack near the Kiryat Arba settlement, in Jerusalem, October 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 30, 2022, 8:03 pm
Ronen Hanania, victim of Kiryat Arba terror attack, laid to rest in Jerusalem
‘My dear husband was such a good person who enjoyed helping others,’ eulogizes his wife, Merav, at funeral ceremony from which members of current government were barred
By ToI Staff
Ronen Hanania, shot dead in a terrorist attack near the Kiryat Arba settlement in the southern West Bank, on October 29, 2022. (Courtesy)
October 30, 2022, 10:52 am
Victim in Kiryat Arba shooting named as Ronen Hanania; wounded son recounts horror
Deceased to be laid to rest Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem; son says he he was ‘lucky to witness his final moments’
By Ash Obel
Wreaths and flags that were on IDF soldiers graves for Memorial Day are seen consumed by flames on 14 April, 2021. (Screen capture: Kan News/ Twitter)
April 15, 2021, 4:08 pm
Haredi teens said to burn wreaths on troops’ graves, PM blasts ‘barbaric’ act
Perpetrators steal and set alight flags and garlands following Israel’s Memorial Day; police open probe as Netanyahu decries ‘horrifying’ act, IDF chief calls it ‘disgusting’
By ToI Staff
The funeral of Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, who died from complications of COVID-19, at the Har Hamenuhot cemetery in Jerusalem, April 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 13, 2020, 1:28 pm
Former chief rabbi Bakshi-Doron laid to rest in front of handful of mourners
Just 20 family members and senior rabbis allowed at funeral in Jerusalem after COVID-19 death; ‘There was nobody as honest as you,’ eulogizes Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau
By ToI Staff
The dead will be placed in burial niches several stories high along the sides of the massive tunnels under the Har Hamenuchot cemetery. (Sam Sokol / JTA)
October 26, 2019, 12:42 pm
Squeezed for burial space, Jerusalem prepares an underground city of the dead
$77 million project incorporates tunnels beneath existing cemetery, with plots carved into rock several stories high; app to enable mourners to easily find loved ones in the works
By Sam Sokol
Workers at the construction site of a massive underground cemetery in Jerusalem, August 18, 2019. (Oded Balilty/AP)
August 29, 2019, 1:45 pm
As cemeteries run out of space, massive modern catacombs to open in Jerusalem
Inspired by ancient Jewish custom of cave burials, tunnels with sepulchers for interring the dead are prepared beneath capital’s near-capacity Har Hamenuhot cemetery
By Ilan Ben Zion and ISAAC SCHARF
Ultra-Orthodox followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach mourn during his funeral in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2018. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 25, 2018, 3:45 pm
Tens of thousands throng Jerusalem streets for radical rabbi’s funeral
Members of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach’s anti-conscription ‘Jerusalem Faction’ use eulogies to call on ultra-Orthodox to shun army offices
By Michael Bachner
Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach speaks with his students in Ramat Beit Shemesh on June 2, 2016. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
February 25, 2018, 11:04 am
Jerusalem braces for traffic disruptions as venerated extremist rabbi buried
Major routes in capital to be blocked as tens of thousands expected to gather to bid farewell to Shmuel Auerbach, head of radical, anti-conscription ‘Jerusalem Faction’
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Yehudah Glick speaks during the funeral of his wife, Yaffa Glick, at the Har Hamenuhot Cemetery in Jerusalem, on January 1, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 1, 2018, 5:59 pm
‘You taught me how to love,’ tearful MK Yehudah Glick says at wife’s funeral
Yaffa Glick dies six months after suffering severe stroke, is buried in Jerusalem, survived by husband and 8 children
By ToI Staff
Rendering of underground cemetery under construction in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Rolzur)
November 14, 2017, 12:17 am
Underground cemetery project looks to the past for the graveyard of the future
Nominated for international award, Israeli tunneling company building 22,000-grave catacomb beneath capital’s largest Jewish graveyard to alleviate burial space shortage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Nurit Bachrach
April 24, 2017, 1:18 pm
Nurit Bachrach
Not murdered at Auschwitz
Her father died without discovering his parents’ fate, but she finally has the answer
Police and rescuers at the scene where a woman and four children were killed in a fire at an apartment in Jerusalem on January 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 3, 2017, 2:21 am
Mother, 4 daughters she allegedly killed, buried in Jerusalem
Hundreds attend funeral in Givat Shaul; father bids tearful farewell to young daughters, aged 9, 7, 2 and 11 months, who died in apparent murder-suicide
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin hosts an iftar mean at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 3, 2016.(GPO/Amos Ben Gershom)
July 4, 2016, 5:10 am
Rivlin hosts iftar meal, calls on PA to condemn terror surge
President says its impossible for Palestinian leaders, society to ‘stand by idly’ in face of ‘brutal and criminal terrorism’
By ToI Staff
Friends and family mourn near the body of terror victim Rabbi Miki Mark during his funeral service at the Otniel yeshiva on July 3, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 3, 2016, 12:49 pm
President, thousands mourn ‘righteous’ rabbi slain in terror attack
Rivlin eulogizes ‘righteous and modest man,’ says terrorism ‘will never undermine our hold on the land’
By ToI Staff
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