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The Mount of Olives (also Mount Olivet, , Jebel az-Zeitun , Har HaZeitim;) is a mountain ridge in east Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 with three peaks running from north to south. The highest, at-Tur, rises to 818 meters (2,683ft). It is named for the olive groves
Olive

The Olive is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, from Lebanon, Syria and the maritime parts of Turkey and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea....
 that once covered its slopes. The Mount of Olives is associated with Jewish and Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
 traditions.
Mount of Olives is first mentioned in connection with David
David

David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
's flight from Absalom
Absalom

Absalom or Avshalom was the third son of David , king of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. He had no sons. describes him as the most handsome man in the kingdom....
 (II Samuel
Books of Samuel

The Books of Samuel are part of the Tanakh and also of the Christianity Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew language, and the Book of Samuel originally formed a single text, as they are often considered today in Hebrew bibles....
 15:30): "And David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up." The ascent was probably east of the City of David, near the village of Silwan
Silwan

Silwan, or "Kfar Shiloah," is a mostly Palestinian people neighborhood of roughly 45,000, adjacent to the Old City , extending along the Kidron Valley and running alongside the eastern slopes of Jabel Mukaber....
.






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The Mount of Olives (also Mount Olivet, , Jebel az-Zeitun , Har HaZeitim;) is a mountain ridge in east Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 with three peaks running from north to south. The highest, at-Tur, rises to 818 meters (2,683ft). It is named for the olive groves
Olive

The Olive is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, from Lebanon, Syria and the maritime parts of Turkey and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea....
 that once covered its slopes. The Mount of Olives is associated with Jewish and Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
 traditions.

Religious significance


Biblical references

The Mount of Olives is first mentioned in connection with David
David

David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
's flight from Absalom
Absalom

Absalom or Avshalom was the third son of David , king of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. He had no sons. describes him as the most handsome man in the kingdom....
 (II Samuel
Books of Samuel

The Books of Samuel are part of the Tanakh and also of the Christianity Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew language, and the Book of Samuel originally formed a single text, as they are often considered today in Hebrew bibles....
 15:30): "And David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up." The ascent was probably east of the City of David, near the village of Silwan
Silwan

Silwan, or "Kfar Shiloah," is a mostly Palestinian people neighborhood of roughly 45,000, adjacent to the Old City , extending along the Kidron Valley and running alongside the eastern slopes of Jabel Mukaber....
. The sacred character of the mount is alluded to in the Ezekiel
Book of Ezekiel

The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Hebrew Bible named after the prophet Ezekiel....
 (11:23): "And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city." Solomon
Solomon

Solomon is a figure described in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an. The biblical accounts identify Solomon as the son of David. He is also called Jedidiah in the Tanakh , and is described as the third king of the United Monarchy, and the final king before the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah split; following th...
 built altars to the gods of his wives on the southern peak (I Kings
Books of Kings

The Books of Kings are a part of Judaism's Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. They were originally written in Hebrew language and were later included by Christianity as part of the Old Testament....
 11:7-8). During the reign of King Josiah
Josiah

Josiah or Yoshiyahu was a king of Judah who instituted major reforms. Josiah is credited by some historians with having established or discovered important Jewish scriptures during the Deuteronomic reform that occurred during his rule....
, the mount was called the Mount of Corruption (II Kings
Books of Kings

The Books of Kings are a part of Judaism's Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. They were originally written in Hebrew language and were later included by Christianity as part of the Old Testament....
 23:13).

The New Testament, tells how Jesus and his friends sang together - "When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives" [Matthew] 26:30.

Jewish customs
The religious ceremony marking the start of a new month was held on the Mount of Olives in the days of the Second Temple
Second Temple

The Second Temple was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem which stood between 516 BCE and 70 CE. During this time, it was the center of Judaism worship, which focused on the sacrifices known as the korbanot....
.After the destruction of the Temple, Jews celebrated the festival of Sukkot
Sukkot

Sukkot , is a Hebrew Bible pilgrimage Jewish holiday that occurs in autumn on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei . The holiday lasts seven days, including Chol Hamoed....
 on the Mount of Olives. They made pilgrimages to the Mount of Olives because it was 80 meters higher than the Temple Mount and offered a panoramic view of the Temple site. It became a traditional place for lamenting the Temple's destruction, especially on Tisha B'Av
Tisha B'Av

is an annual ta'anit in Judaism, named for the ninth day of the month of Av in the Hebrew calendar. The fast commemorates the destruction of the Solomon's Temple and Second Temples in Jerusalem, which occurred about 656 years apart, but on the same date....
. In 1481, an Italian Jewish pilgrim, Rabbi Meshulam Da Volterra, wrote: "And all the community of Jews, every year, goes up to Mount Zion on the day of Tisha Be-’Av to fast and mourn, and from there they move down along Yoshafat Valley and up to Mount of Olives. From there they see the whole Temple (the Temple Mount) and there they weep and lament the destruction of this House."

New Testament references

The Mount of Olives is frequently mentioned in the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
 (;26:30, etc.) as the route from Jerusalem to Bethany
Bethany (Israel)

Bethany is recorded in the New Testament as the home of Mary, sister of Lazarus, Martha and Lazarus, as well as that of Simon the Leper. Jesus is reported to have lodged there after his Palm Sunday, and it was from Bethany that he parted from his disciples at the Ascension of Jesus....
 and the place where Jesus
Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
 stood when he wept over Jerusalem. Jesus is said to have spent time on the mount, teaching and prophesying to his disciples (Matthew 24-25), including the Olivet discourse
Olivet discourse

The Olivet discourse is a biblical passage found in the Synoptic Gospels of Gospel of Matthew , Gospel of Mark and Gospel of Luke . It is known as the "Little Apocalypse" because it includes Jesus' descriptions of future events, the use of end times language, and Jesus' warning to his followers that they will suffer tribulation and persecuti...
, returning after each day to rest (Luke
Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke is a Synoptic Gospels, and is the third and longest of the four Biblical canonical Gospels of the New Testament. The text narrates the life of Jesus of Nazareth....
 21:37), and also coming there on the night of his betrayal . At the foot of the Mount of Olives lies the Garden of Gethsemane
Gethsemane

Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem believed to be the place where Jesus and his disciples prayed the night before Crucifixion of Jesus....
.

Jewish cemetery

From biblical times until today, Jews have been buried on the Mount of Olives. There are an estimated 150,000 graves on the Mount, including tombs traditionally associated with Zechariah and Avshalom (Absalom). Important rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
s from the 15th to the 20th centuries are buried there, among them Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook

File:Abraham Isaac Kook 1924.jpgAbraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi Jews chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionism Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halacha, Kabbalah and a renowned Torah scholar....
, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin

was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
 asked to be buried on the Mount of Olives rather than Mount Herzl
Mount Herzl

Mount Herzl, , is a hilltop and national cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel named for Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism. Herzl's tomb lies at the top of the hill....
.

Roman era

Roman soldiers
Roman army

The Roman Army was employed by the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, as part of the Roman military. Its most important infantry constituent for much of its history was the Roman legion....
 from the 10th Legion
Legio X Fretensis

Legio decima Fretensis of the sea strait") was a Roman legion levied by Augustus in 41/40 BC to fight during the period of Roman Civil War that started the dissolution of the Roman Republic....
 camped on the Mount during the Siege of Jerusalem
Siege of Jerusalem (70)

The Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 AD was a decisive event in the First Jewish-Roman War. It was followed by the Masada#History in 73 AD. The Roman Empire army, led by the future Emperor Titus, with Tiberius Julius Alexander as his second-in-command, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, which had been occupied by its Jewish defend...
 in the year 70 CE, which led to the destruction of the city.

Jordanian rule

King Hussein permitted the construction of the Intercontinental Hotel
Seven Arches Hotel

The Seven Arches Hotel is a hotel in the Arab neighborhood of A-Tur on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem. The hotel was built by the Jordanians in 1964 on top of the Jewish cemetery that covers the slopes of the mountain....
 at the summit of the Mount of Olives together with a road that cut through the cemetery which destroyed hundreds of Jewish graves, some from the First Temple Period. Some fifty thousand Jewish graves out of a total seventy thousand were allegedly destroyed or defaced during the nineteen years of Jordanian rule, although this is disputed by many authorities. After the Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
, restoration work began, and the cemetery was re-opened for burials.

Today

The Arab neighborhood of at-Tur is located on the mountain's summit. Landmarks on the Mount of Olives include Yad Avshalom
Yad Avshalom

Yad Avshalom , also known as the Tomb of Absalom, is an ancient tomb with a conical roof located in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem, Israel....
, the Tomb of Zechariah
Tomb of Zechariah

According to Jewish tradition, this is the tomb of the priest Zechariah Ben Jehoiada, who was stoned at the command of King Jehoash of Judah, as recorded in Books of Chronicles 24:20-21....
, the Church of all Nations
Church of All Nations (Jerusalem)

The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church or Basilica of the Agony, is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane....
, the Church of Maria Magdalene
Church of Maria Magdalene

The Church of Mary Magdalene is a Russian Orthodox church located on the Mount of Olives, near the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem....
, Dominus Flevit Church
Dominus Flevit Church

Dominus Flevit is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives immediately facing the Old City of Jerusalem....
, Gethsemane
Gethsemane

Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem believed to be the place where Jesus and his disciples prayed the night before Crucifixion of Jesus....
, Mary's Tomb
Mary's Tomb

Mary's Tomb is a tomb located in the Kidron Valley, on the foothills of Mount of Olives, near the Church of All Nations and Gethsemane garden, originally just outside Jerusalem....
, the Mount of Olives Hotel
Mount of Olives Hotel

The Mount of Olives Hotel, situated next to the Ascension of Jesus on the summit of the Mount of Olives, is an ancient hostelry in Jerusalem ....
 and the Seven Arches Hotel
Seven Arches Hotel

The Seven Arches Hotel is a hotel in the Arab neighborhood of A-Tur on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem. The hotel was built by the Jordanians in 1964 on top of the Jewish cemetery that covers the slopes of the mountain....
.

Cultural references

Christ on the Mount of Olives is the title of an oratorio by Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
, and of a painting
Christ on the Mount of Olives (Caravaggio)

Christ on the Mount of Olives was a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , formerly in the Bode Museum painting gallery, Berlin, but destroyed in 1945....
 by Caravaggio
Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was an Italian people artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610, considered the first great representative of the Baroque school of painting....
.

Notable graves

  • Abraham Isaac Kook
    Abraham Isaac Kook

    File:Abraham Isaac Kook 1924.jpgAbraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi Jews chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionism Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halacha, Kabbalah and a renowned Torah scholar....
     (1864-1935); Ashkenazi chief rabbi
    Chief Rabbi

    Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities....
     of the British Mandate of Palestine; founder of Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav
    Mercaz haRav

    Mercaz HaRav , also known as Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav, is a Hardal yeshiva situated in Jerusalem, Israel. The yeshiva was founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and was initially headed by Rabbi Aharon Bronstein, the Ilui of Tebrig....
    .
  • Aharon Soloveichik (1917-2001); Rosh yeshiva
    Rosh yeshiva

    Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the Dean of a Yeshiva . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh ? meaning head, and yeshiva ? a school of religious Jewish education....
     of Yeshivas Brisk, Chicago
    Chicago

    Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
    .
  • Aryeh Kaplan
    Aryeh Kaplan

    Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan was a noted United States Orthodox Judaism rabbi and author with a background in both physics and Judaism. He was lauded as an original thinker and prolific writer, from studies of the Torah, Talmud and Kabbalah to introductory pamphlets on Jewish beliefs and Jewish philosophy aimed at non-religious and Baal teshuva Jews....
     (1934-1983); Rabbi
    Rabbi

    Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
    , author of The Living Torah
  • Avigdor Miller
    Avigdor Miller

    Avigdor Miller was a Haredi Judaism rabbi, author and lecturer in the United States. He served simultaneously as a communal rabbi and as the mashgiach ruchani of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and as a teacher in Bais Yaakov for many years....
     (1908-2001); American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     rabbi, thinker and lecturer
  • Ben Ish Chai
    Ben Ish Chai

    Yosef Chaim was a leading Hakham , posek on Jewish law and Master Kabbalah. He is best known as author of the work of Halakha Ben Ish Chai , by which title he is also known....
     (1832-1909); posek
    Posek

    Posek is the term in Halakha for "decider"?a legal scholar who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive....
     and kabbalist
  • Chaim ibn Attar
    Chaim ibn Attar

    Chaim ben Moses ibn Attar ???? ?? ??? ??? ??? was a Talmudist and Kabbalah; born at Meknes, Morocco, in 1696; died in Jerusalem July 31, 1743. He was one of the most prominent rabbis in Morocco....
     (1696-1743); Talmud
    Talmud

    The Talmud is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Halakha, Jewish ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism....
     scholar and kabbalist
  • Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
    Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

    Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was a key figure in the Language revival of Hebrew language as a Human language. Ben-Yehuda regarded Hebrew and Zionism as symbiotic: "The Hebrew language can live only if we revive the nation and return it to the fatherland," he wrote....
     (1858-1922); Linguist
    Linguistics

    Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
  • Eliyahu Asheri
    Eliyahu Asheri

    Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri was an Israeli student from the village of Itamar , in the northern West Bank who was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees on June 25, 2006, hours after the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli corporal, that led to Operation Summer Rains....
     (1988-2006); Israeli student kidnapped and murdered by Palestinians
  • Gabriel A. Shrem (1916-1986); Chief cantor of the Sephardic Syrian Jewish Community in New York.
  • Haim Moussa Douek (1905-1974); last Chief Rabbi of Egypt
  • Immanuel Jakobovits
    Immanuel Jakobovits

    Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits of Regent's Park in Greater London, Order of the British Empire was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations from 1967 to 1991....
     (1921-1999); Chief rabbi of Great Britain
    Great Britain

    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
     and the Commonwealth
    Commonwealth of Nations

    The Commonwealth of Nations, also known as the Commonwealth or the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of fifty-three independent member states....
  • Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers
    Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers

    Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers or Meir ben Judah Loeb Ha-Kohen Ashkenazi Poppers was a Bohemian rabbi and kabbalist. He was born in Prague and died in Jerusalem in February or March, 1662....
     (1624-1662); rabbi and kabbalist
  • Meir Feinstein
    Meir Feinstein

    Meir Feinstein was born in the Old City of Jerusalem. His parents, Bela and Eliezer, immigrated from Brisk . He was an Irgun operative who was injured while launching a railroad attack in Jerusalem and was subsequently captured and sentenced to death by the British authorities in British Mandate of Palestine....
     (1927-1947); Irgun
    Irgun

    Irgun was a militant Zionism group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was established as a militant offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah ....
     fighter
  • Menahem Begin (1913-1992); Israel prime minister
  • Ephraim Urbach
    Ephraim Urbach

    Ephraim Elimelech Urbach was a distinguished scholar of Judaism. He is best known for his landmark works on rabbinic thought, The Sages, and for research on the Tosafot....
    , Talmudist
  • Moshe Biderman
    Lelov (Hasidic dynasty)

    Lelov is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties which traces its origins to Rabbi Dovid of Lel?w, Poland.The Lelover dynasty migrated from Poland to Jerusalem when Rabbi Dovid's son, Rabbi Moshe Biderman , moved there in the last year of his life....
     (1776-1851); Hassidic rabbi
  • Moshe Halberstam
    Moshe Halberstam

    Rabbi Moshe Halberstam was the son of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam of Tschakava, a scion of the Sanz dynasty, and of the daughter of Rabbi Sholom of Shotz of London....
     (1932-2006); Rosh yeshivah of the Tschakava yeshivah
    Sanz (Hasidic dynasty)

    The Sanz Hasidic Judaism dynasty was founded by Rabbi Chaim Halberstam Rabbi of Nowy Sacz , author of Divrei Chaim and a son-in-law of Rabbi Boruch Frankel Thumim , Rabbi of Lipn?k nad Becvou , author of Boruch Taam....
     and dayan
  • Moshe ben Nahman Gerondi
    Nahmanides

    Nahmanides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Nachman , was a Catalonia rabbi, philosophy, physician, Kabbalah, and Jewish commentaries on the Bible....
     - also known as 'Ramban'/'Nahmanides' (1194-1270); Catalan
    Catalonia

    Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
     rabbi, philosopher
    Philosophy

    Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
    , physician
    Physician

    A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
     and biblical commentator
  • Pesach Stein
    Pesach Stein

    Rabbi Pesach Yitzhak Stein was a renowned Rosh Yeshiva at the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio....
     (1918-2002); Head of Telz yeshiva
  • Princess Alice of Battenberg
    Princess Alice of Battenberg

    Princess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark , was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh .Congenital hearing loss, she grew up in German Empire, England and the Mediterranean Basin....
     (1885-1969); Mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom since 20 November 1947, and her prince consort since 6 February 1952....
  • Robert Maxwell
    Robert Maxwell

    Ian Robert Maxwell Military Cross was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Parliament of the United Kingdom , who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire, which collapsed after his death due to the fraudulent transactions Maxwell had committed to support his business empire, including illegal use of p...
     (1923-1991); British media tycoon
  • Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub
    Modzitz (Hasidic dynasty)

    Modzitz or Modzhitz is the name of a Hasidic Judaism group within Orthodox Judaism that derives its name from Modrzyce, one of the boroughs of the town of Deblin, Poland, located on the Vistula River....
     (1886-1947); Second Modzitzer
    Modzitz (Hasidic dynasty)

    Modzitz or Modzhitz is the name of a Hasidic Judaism group within Orthodox Judaism that derives its name from Modrzyce, one of the boroughs of the town of Deblin, Poland, located on the Vistula River....
     rebbe (last person to buried on the mount until 1967). His son, Rebbe Shmuel Eliyahu, was buried there in 1984; and his grandson, Rebbe Yisrael Dan, was buried there in 2006
  • Shlomo Goren
    Shlomo Goren

    Shlomo Goren , was an Orthodox Judaism Religious Zionism rabbi in Israel who founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel from 1973 to 1983....
     (1917-1994); Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel
  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon
    Shmuel Yosef Agnon

    Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize in literature laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S....
     (1888-1970) ;first Hebrew
    Hebrew language

    Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
     writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature
    Nobel Prize in Literature

    The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....
  • Shmuel Salant
    Shmuel Salant

    Rabbi Shmuel Salant served as the Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar.He was born in Bialystok, then part of Russia....
     (1816-1909); Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Jerusalem
  • Uri Zvi Greenberg
    Uri Zvi Greenberg

    Uri Zvi Grinberg was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist....
     (1896-1981); poet
  • Yechezkel Sarna
    Yechezkel Sarna

    Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna was the successor to Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel , the Alter of Slabodka yeshiva, as the spiritual mentor of that Yeshiva. He moved it from Europe to Hebron in 1925 and, following the Riots in Palestine of 1929 of 1929 to Jerusalem, later assuming the position of Rosh Yeshiva....
     (1890-1969); Head of Slabodka yeshiva
    Slabodka yeshiva

    Slabodka yeshiva, also known as Knesses Yisroel, and later as Hebron Yeshiva or Yeshivas Hevron, was known colloquially as the "mother of yeshivas" and was devoted to high level study of the Talmud....
  • Yechiel Yehoshua Rabinowicz
    Biala (Hasidic dynasty)

    The Biala Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties originated from Poland. The Rebbe#Hasidic rebbe of Biala are descended from Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Rabinowicz, known as the Yid Hakodosh ....
     (1900-1981); Grand Rabbi of the Biala
    Biala (Hasidic dynasty)

    The Biala Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties originated from Poland. The Rebbe#Hasidic rebbe of Biala are descended from Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Rabinowicz, known as the Yid Hakodosh ....
     dynasty
  • Yisrael Eldad (1910-1996); philosopher
  • Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss
    Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss

    Dayan Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss , also known as the Minchas Yitzchak, was a prominent Beth din#Officers of a Beth/Beis Din, Halacha authority and Talmudic scholar....
     (1902-1989); Talmudic scholar, posek and chief rabbi of Edah HaChareidis
  • Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
    Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld

    Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld was the Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jews Haredi Judaism Jewish community of Jerusalem during the years of the British Mandate of Palestine and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis....
     (1849-1932); Co-founder of Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem and its first chief rabbi
  • Zundel Salant
    Zundel Salant

    Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant was the primary teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter.Reb Zundel was born in 1786 in Salantai, Lithuania. Little is known of his early years....
     (1786-1866); rabbi
  • Shlomo Moussaieff
    Shlomo Moussaieff

    Shlomo Moussaieff may refer to:* Shlomo Moussaieff , one of the founders of the Bukharan Quarter in Jerusalem* Shlomo Moussaieff , Israeli born millionaire businessman....
     (1852-1922)- Merchant and co-founder of the Bukharian Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem
  • Zvi Yehuda Kook
    Zvi Yehuda Kook

    Zvi Yehuda Kook was a rabbi, leader of Religious Zionism and Rosh Yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva. He was the son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and named in honor of his father's mentor, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, also known as the Netziv....
     (1891-1982); Leader of the Mizrachi
    Mizrachi (Religious Zionism)

    The Mizrachi is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines....
     movement in Israel and head of Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav
  • Gavriel Holtzberg
    Gavriel Holtzberg

    Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg was an Orthodox rabbi and the Shaliach to Mumbai, India, where he and his wife Rivka ran the Nariman House. He was also a religious leader and community builder for the local Jewish Indian community, and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue....
     (1979-2008)
  • Rivka Holtzberg (1980-2008)


Image gallery

Image:Zkharia Hezir tombs.JPG|Tomb of Zechariah
Tomb of Zechariah

According to Jewish tradition, this is the tomb of the priest Zechariah Ben Jehoiada, who was stoned at the command of King Jehoash of Judah, as recorded in Books of Chronicles 24:20-21....
 and of the Hezir family Image:JerMM.JPG|Church of Maria Magdalene
Church of Maria Magdalene

The Church of Mary Magdalene is a Russian Orthodox church located on the Mount of Olives, near the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem....
 Image:Mount of Olives-Jewish-Cemetary.jpg|Ancient Jewish cemetery Image:Mount of Olives-Overlook.jpg|Looking toward the Temple Mount

External links

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  • - Mount of Olives
  • - Photos and information
  • - Including surrounding churches and scenery