
{"id":45924,"date":"2023-08-21T13:40:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityofdavid.org.il\/?p=45924"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:53:00","slug":"the-resurrection-of-the-dead-on-the-mount-of-olives-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityofdavid.org.il\/en\/the-resurrection-of-the-dead-on-the-mount-of-olives-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"The Resurrection of the Dead on the Mount of Olives"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&rdquo;1\/12&Prime;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;8\/12&Prime;][vc_column_text]The ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives is now accessible on the internet: Elad Foundation has digitized tens of thousands of graves in the cemetery in Jerusalem. Information about the individuals buried at the site, directions to the area, and tour routes can be found on their website.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who are buried at the cemetery are several of the nation&rsquo;s great figures, including the reviver of the Hebrew language Eliezer Ben Yehuda, Nobel laureate in literature Shay Agnon, former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and the novelist and poet Henrietta Szold. Also buried on the mount are the founder of the Bezalel Academy Boris Schatz, the founder of the Israel Electric Company Pinchas Rutenberg, as well as renowned rabbis and Hasidic leaders, including the holy Or HaChaim, Rabbi Kook, and the Rash ash.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;3\/12&Prime;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website dedicated to the Mount of Olives is online, allowing visitors not only to acquaint themselves with the Mount of Olives itself and the tourist activities in the area but also to be exposed to a mapping of the oldest cemetery in the country and to have access to up-to-date information about those buried there &#8211; all from the comfort of their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mount-of-olives"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - 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