Israel Cemeteries: Difference between revisions

Search engine - The world's largest headstone database with digitized images and transcriptions. According to the website, all of the cemeteries in Israel have been digitized and are included in this database.
Cemetery search

Mount of Olives Cemetery

Website - A website dedicated to the Mount of Olives Cemetery, including a grave search, stories about the deceased, maps, and other resources.

Burial Societies[edit | edit source]

Burial Societies in Israel - Very helpful information if you are trying to find where someone was buried in Israel. Each burial society maintains their own records of burials and can be contacted for more information.
Tel Aviv Burial Society Database Search Engine
Steve Morse Translating Aid

For Further Reading[edit | edit source]

Read the Jewish Cemeteries article.
Tidbits about Graves in Israel, by Dahn Cukier
Hebrew Acronyms on Tombstones and Death Registers Downloadable Chart.
Deciphering Jewish Gravestones, by Philip Trauring. Long article on understanding Hebrew epitaphs, including a 34-page PDF version.

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 ==Online Resources==
-'''JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Register (JOWBR)''' - A massive Jewish burial database with over 4.2 million entries from 143 countries. Includes 712 cemeteries in Israel with over 1.6 million burials recorded.
-''Must be logged in to access search results. Membership is free, donations are encouraged''
+==== Jewish Cemeteries ====
-* [https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ Search engine]
+* [https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Register] (JOWBR) at JewishGen -- [https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.php index]; The largest international Jewish burial database
-* [https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.php Index] of all cemeteries included in the database, including Israel
-'''Billion Graves''' - World's largest headstone database with digitized images and transcriptions. According to the website, all of the cemeteries in Israel have been digitized and are included in this database.
+'''Billion Graves'''
-''Open access, no membership required''
+* [https://billiongraves.com/ Search engine] - The world's largest headstone database with digitized images and transcriptions. According to the website, all of the cemeteries in Israel have been digitized and are included in this database.
-* [https://billiongraves.com/ Search engine]
 * [https://billiongraves.com/search/cemetery Cemetery search]
-'''Mount of Olives Cemetery -''' A website dedicated to the Mount of Olives Cemetery, including a grave search, stories about the deceased, maps, and other resources.
+'''Mount of Olives Cemetery'''
-* [https://mountofolives.co.il/en/ Website]
+* [https://mountofolives.co.il/en/ Website] - A website dedicated to the Mount of Olives Cemetery, including a grave search, stories about the deceased, maps, and other resources.
 ==Burial Societies==