Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery

The Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery is a cemetery in Jerusalem. It is the oldest Jewish cemetery in the world. It is also the biggest cemetery for Jews. The cemetery is on the Mount of Olives. It faces the Old City of Jerusalem. The cemetery has over 150,000 graves.

 Sections 
 Ashkenazi Communities section
 Sephardim and Oriental Communities sections
 Hasidic Communities
 Military section
 1929 Palestine riots section

 Kidron Valley necropolis 
The southwestern part of the cemetery is Kidron Valley necropolis continuing the cemetery from southwest in the Kidron Valley. a part of the Arab village of Silwan was built over this part of the cemetery.

 Arab neighborhoods 
Some Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem were built on the grounds of the cemetery after the Jordanian conquest in 1948 including: Al-Bustan, Ras al-Amud, Al-Sheikh, A-Tur,

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 Other websites 

 Official website 

Category:Mount of Olives
Category:Cemeteries in Jerusalem
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