Robert Maxwell

Robert Maxwell

male, deceased (1991)
death by drowning, British newspaper publisher, soccer chairman, British mass media owner, czech, mossad…buriedattheMountofOlives, member of the United Kingdom Parliament, Recipient of the Military Cross, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Newspaper publisher of the 20th century
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and formerly Member of Parliament (M...
Meir Feinstein

Meir Feinstein

male, deceased (1947)
buriedattheMountofOlives, British Mandate of Palestine, Olei Hagardom, committed suicide, Irgun, Irgun member…Jews buried in the Mount of Olives
Meir Feinstein was an Irgun operative who was injured while launching a railroad attack in Jerusalem and was subsequently captured and sentenced to...
Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook

male, deceased (1935)
Chief rabbi of Israel, buriedattheMountofOlives, Latvian, Jewish person, Mandate for Palestine, Jews buried in the Mount of Olives…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, buriedattheMountofOlives, vilnius, revival, algiers…land of Israel, Jews buried in the Mount of Olives, 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...
Uri Zvi Greenberg

Uri Zvi Greenberg

male, deceased (1981)
buriedattheMountofOlives, Former Member of the Knesset, pogrom, World War II, yiddish, British…the holocaust, Jews buried in the Mount of Olives, 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...
Shlomo Goren

Shlomo Goren

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

Henrietta Szold

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

Simchah Bunim Alter

male, deceased (1992)
chalitza, buriedattheMountofOlives, Sephardi, shas, British Mandate of Palestine, ger…the holocaust, Rebbes of Ger, State of Israel, Jews buried in the Mount of Olives
Simchah Bunim Alter (or Simcha Binim) (April 6 1898 - August 6 1992), who was also known by the title of his Torah work/s as the "Lev Simcha", was...
Shmuel Salant

Shmuel Salant

male, deceased (1909)
buriedattheMountofOlives, Haredi rabbi in Europe, Jews buried in the Mount of Olives, 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...
Moshe Halberstam

Moshe Halberstam

male, deceased (2006)
Hasidic rosh yeshivas, buriedattheMountofOlives, Halachic, sanz, Rosh yeshivas, Edah Hachareidis…Mount of Olives
Rabbi Moshe Halberstam (April 1, 1932 - April 26, 2006) was the son of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam of Tschakava, a scion of the Sanz dynasty, and...