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Safed Burials 1433-2000 from the new & part of the old cemetery
Safed Old Cemetery – A PARTIAL list of 5,141 burials in the ancient (on the slope of the hill) cemetery. Based on incomplete lists by Rami Yisrael and R. Auman.
Safed New Cemetery – A list of 3,497 burials in the new (bottom of the hill) cemetery through 2006. Based on the Hevra Kadisha List
Register of Burials at Christ Church, Jerusalem
BillionGraves

8,400 tombstones located in cemeteries in different parts of Israel.

Burial Societies

Tidbits about Graves in Israel, by Dahn Cukier
Hebrew Acronyms on Tombstones and Death Registers Downloadable Chart. Go to "General Jewish Genealogy Research".
Deciphering Jewish Gravestones, by Philip Trauring. Long article on understanding Hebrew epitaphs, including a 34-page PDF version.