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23 graves smashed at Mount of Olives

23 graves smashed at Mount of Olives

Twenty-three graves were smashed at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem yesterday, the latest of ongoing acts of vandalism there. Police forensics experts were summoned to the scene immediately when the damage was discovered last night. In recent months grave sites have been defaced several times at the Mount of Olives, but no arrests have...
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Mount of Olives virtual cemetery resurrects the dead

The City of David has created a unique website in an attempt to honor the memory of the people buried on the Mount of Olives – and to tell their stories. Over 20,000 graves have been mapped and incorporated into a comprehensive database in the first ever attempt to restore the graves and record...
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Dogs take up residence at Mount of Olives

Chaim Miller, director of the Movement for the Citizens of Jerusalem, said Sunday that in recent weeks visitors to the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem have been shocked to find that dogs have been using broken gravestones in the cemetery for shelter from the elements, Arutz Sheva reports. The gravestones, toppled by Arabs, are...
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