A Bnei Brak man, 93, was buried in a central Jerusalem cemetery this week in the first funeral the cemetery has seen in over 50 years. The cemetery is located just behind the Knesset and the new Supreme Court building, in what used to be the Sheikh Bader neighborhood. It contains some 2,500 graves from 1949-1951, including those of the Admor of Zevil, Rabbi Yitzchak HaKohen Grofman, members of prominent Jerusalem families, several who fell in defense of the country, and a five-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet in the Katamon neighborhood.
The cemetery was established as a temporary burial ground in the late 1940's, and in fact many of those buried there were transferred to the newly-opened permanent cemetery in Mt. Menuchot in the 1950's. - These included especially soldiers and others who fell in similar circumstances before and during the early days of the War of Independence. Others were transferred to Mt. of Olives after its liberation in 1967.
The cemetery was established as a temporary burial ground in the late 1940's, and in fact many of those buried there were transferred to the newly-opened permanent cemetery in Mt. Menuchot in the 1950's. - These included especially soldiers and others who fell in similar circumstances before and during the early days of the War of Independence. Others were transferred to Mt. of Olives after its liberation in 1967.