Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

male, deceased (1992) (Israel)
buried at the Mount of Olives, Warsaw University alumni, Former Member of the Knesset, Nobel Prize winner, belarusian, Polish-Jewish…Prime Minister of Israel, JewsburiedintheMountofOlives, British Mandate of Palestine, The National
"'"' (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the fi...
Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook

male, deceased (1935)
Chief rabbi of Israel, buried at the Mount of Olives, Latvian, Jewish person, Mandate for Palestine, JewsburiedintheMountofOlives…Haredi rabbi in Israel, Philosopher of Judaism
Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the (now) Religious Zionist Yeshiva...
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

male, deceased (1922)
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda, Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, buried at the Mount of Olives, vilnius, revival, algiers…land of Israel, JewsburiedintheMountofOlives, Revival of Hebrew language
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was principally responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language from its previous state as a liturgical language. Bo...
Shlomo Goren

Shlomo Goren

male, deceased (1994)
British administered, Chief rabbi of Israel, buried at the Mount of Olives, British Mandate of Palestine, polish, Orthodox Jew…Temple Mount, JewsburiedintheMountofOlives
Shlomo Goren (1917-1994), was a former Orthodox Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Goren, born "Gorenchik", was born in Zambrow, Poland and...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

male, deceased (1970)
Israeli, hebrew, Nobel Prize winner, writer, Galician, Nobel laureate in Literature…nobel prize in literature, buried at the Mount of Olives, land of Israel, JewsburiedintheMountofOlives
Shmuel Yosef Agnon. One of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction, Agnon was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Ottoman...
Jossele Rosenblatt

Jossele Rosenblatt

male, deceased (1933)
buried at the Mount of Olives, American, singer, composer, ukrainian, Jewish person…JewsburiedintheMountofOlives
Josef "Jossele" Rosenblatt, Yossele Rosenblatt (May 9, 1882, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine - June 19, 1933, Jerusalem) was an Ukraine-born chazzan (cantor)...
Henrietta Szold

Henrietta Szold

female, deceased (1945)
buried at the Mount of Olives, Youth Aliyah, from Baltimore, hadassah, zionist, Jewish…JewsburiedintheMountofOlives
Henrietta Szold (December 21, 1860 - February 13, 1945) was a U.S. Jewish scholar and Zionist leader. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of...
Zvi Yehuda Kook

Zvi Yehuda Kook

male, deceased (1982)
Religious Zionist rosh yeshivas, buried at the Mount of Olives, Religious Zionism, Netziv, yeshiva, zionist…JewsburiedintheMountofOlives
Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891-1982) was a rabbi, a leader of Religious Zionism, usually associated with the Mizrachi movement in Israel, and the Rosh...
Shmuel Salant

Shmuel Salant

male, deceased (1909)
buried at the Mount of Olives, Haredi rabbi in Europe, JewsburiedintheMountofOlives, Chief rabbi, synagogue, Haredi rabbi…Yosef Zundel of Salant
Rabbi Shmuel Salant served as the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar. He was born in Białystok, t...
Uri Zvi Greenberg

Uri Zvi Greenberg

male, deceased (1981)
buried at the Mount of Olives, Former Member of the Knesset, pogrom, World War II, yiddish, British…the holocaust, JewsburiedintheMountofOlives, unrest of 1936
Uri Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981), the son of a distinguished Hasidic family was raised in Lvov (now in Ukraine) and received a traditional religious...