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The Mount of Olives (Har Hazaitim) cemetery, with 70,000-150,000 graves, dates back 3,000 years and is still in use today. Sections overlook Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Notable people buried there include Shebna (a First Temple royal steward mentioned in the Book of Isaiah), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (father of modern Hebrew), Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, as well as Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg (Chabad emissaries killed in a 2008 terror attack in Mumbai).

For background, please see:

• Chabad couple buried after Mumbai terror attack
• Shebna’s tomb
• 3,000 years of Jewish burial
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, father of modern Hebrew
• Touring the Mount of Olives and ancient necropolis
• Notable graves on Har Hazaitim
• Burial today

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