Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery is a religious burial ground in Jerusalem, Israel. Wikidata records 395 notable interments here, including Menachem Begin, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
At a glance
| Location | Jerusalem, Israel |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 31.77384, 35.24307 (source: Wikidata) |
| Type | Religious and churchyard |
| Website | mountofolives.co.il |
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Notable interments
395 notable figures are documented here in Wikidata, each with a Wikipedia article and recorded burial place. The 25 most widely covered are listed below. Browse all 395, or take the JSON record.
- Menachem Begin (1913–1992), politician
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887–1970), writer, poet, short story writer
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor
- Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), writer, poet, playwright
- Sheldon Adelson (1933–2021), entrepreneur
- Robert Maxwell (1923–1991), screenwriter, writer, politician
- Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), poet, rabbi, rosh yeshiva
- Steven Hill (1922–2016), actor, television actor, stage actor
- Henrietta Szold (1860–1945), writer, teacher, author
- Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), mathematician, university teacher, historian of mathematics
- Jacob Israël de Haan (1881–1924), writer, jurist, poet
- Judah Alkalai (1798–1878), rabbi, opinion journalist, zionist
- Shlomo Goren (1917–1994), rabbi, military officer
- Uri Zvi Grinberg (1896–1981), writer, poet, politician
- Jacob Neeman (1939–2017), lawyer, politician, jurist
- Hannah Elizabeth Pick Goslar (1928–2022), nurse
- Geulah Cohen (1925–2019), writer, politician, journalist
- Israel Eldad (1910–1996), writer, partisan, historian
- Boris Schatz (1866–1932), painter, sculptor, university teacher
- Max Eitingon (1881–1943), physician, psychoanalyst
- Itamar Ben-Avi (1882–1943), writer, politician, editor-in-chief
- Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933), actor, composer, singer
- Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933), actor, composer, singer
- Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933), actor, composer, singer
- Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933), actor, composer, singer
Common questions
Where is Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery?
Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery is in Jerusalem, Israel, at coordinates 31.7738, 35.2431.
Who is buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery?
Wikidata documents 395 notable interments at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, including Menachem Begin, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Else Lasker-Schüler, Sheldon Adelson.
Records and sources
- Wikidata: Q12404547 (CC0, the source for the facts on this page)
- Wikipedia article
- Burial records on Find a Grave (external, not affiliated)