Had one of the ancients taken a survey to see who was mortal, not a single person could have said that he or she wasn’t ...

Bryna Hilburg, a symbol of the bereaved families of Gush Katif, talks to JNS about the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the prospect of reinterring the remains ...

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) uprooted several olive trees in Odala village, south of Nablus, on Wednesday evening.

In an apparent violation of Islamic tradition, an Ottoman-era grave in Israel's Negev desert holds the remains of not one, ...

In 1948, after the Arab-Israeli War, an agreement was signed between Jordan and Israel to ... and the cemetery became functional for burials again. Today, the Mount of Olives offers one of the ...

the government site that lists the names and histories of each of Israel’s 23,544 war dead. Barnea is one of the regulars at the Mount of Olives cemetery. She has spent the last two-and-a-half ...

in Israel, a historic Jewish cemetery is free of vandalism for the first time in decades. The Mount of Olives cemetery is a sprawling 3,000-year-old Jewish burial ground in East Jerusalem with ...

On June 15, a post appeared on reporter Dikla Aharon’s Facebook wall, asking people to join a minyan for a memorial service at the Mount of Olives cemetery. Some 30 people answered the call ...

(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) The police must increase its presence around the Mount of Olives Cemetery in east Jerusalem, where Jewish visitors are often attacked ...

The Mount of Olives (Har Hazeitim in Hebrew ... burial ceremonies have renewed and large sections of the cemetery were rehabilitated. Israel also guarantees free access to all for religious ...

Dozens of Jewish graves in the Mount of Olives cemetery were desecrated during ... Some have begun to wonder whether Israel has given up on eastern Yerushalayim despite the rhetoric of a ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews visit graves at the cemetery on the Mount of Olives, September 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) More than 40 graves were vandalized at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.