Har HaMenuchot

Har HaMenuchot

Har HaMenuchot ( _he. הר המנוחות, "Mount of Respite", Ashkenazi pronunciation "Har HaMenuchos") is a cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel. The cemetery, located in Givat Shaul, opened in 1951. Many important rabbis and Jewish leaders are buried there.

Jewish leaders

* Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
* Naftali Herz Imber

Famous rabbis

* Baruch Ashlag
* Yehuda Ashlag
* Chaim Joseph David Azulai, the "Chida" (reburied there)
* Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
* Nachman Bulman
* Shlomo Carlebach
* Moshe Feinstein
* Yitzchak Kadouri
* Aharon Kotler
* Isser Zalman Meltzer
* Chanoch Dov Padwa
* Aharon Rokeach
* Gedalia Schorr
* Sholom Schwadron
* Meir Shapiro
* Naftoli Shapiro
* Chaim Shmuelevitz
* Zalman Sorotzkin
* Baruch Sorotzkin
* Gaon of Tchebin
* Eliezer Waldenberg
* Menachem Ziemba (reburied there)

ee also

*Jewish burial

References

* [http://futef.com/search?query=cats%3A%5BMountains%20of%20Israel%5D Har HaMenuchot]
* [http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/picture/atarim/site_form_atar_eng.asp?site_id=2250&pic_cat=4&icon_cat=6&york_cat=9 Givat Shaul description page -- Official Website of Jerusalem]


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