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, Saint Mary 'Virgin Mary'
Religious Figure. She is believed by Christianity to be the Mother of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christian Messiah). Born to Joachim and Anna. Joachim was of the house of David and Anna was of the house of Aaron. She was betrothed and later married to Joseph who was a carpenter. Mary took part in the Incarnation and Redemption by her Divine Motherhood and her sorrows on Calvary. On October 11, 1954, Pope Pius XII institued the Feast of Mary in the liturgical calendar of the Church. According to...[Read More] (Bio by: God Bless & R.I.P. ~ Daughter Of An Angel ~)
Church of the Assumption*, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
*This location is unconfirmed or in dispute.
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef b. July 17, 1888 d. February 17, 1970
Author. He was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1966 co-jointly with Swedish poet Nelly Sachs. He wrote such works as "Upon the Handle of the Lock," "Days of Awe," and "Bridal Canopy."
Mount of Olives Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Alice of Battenberg b. February 25, 1885 d. December 5, 1969
Born at Windsor Castle, Princess Victoria Alice Elisabeth Julie Marie of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Congenitally deaf, she grew up in Germany, England and the Mediterranean. After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903, she lived in Greece until the exile of most of the Greek royal family in 1917. Prince and Princess Andrew had five...[Read More] (Bio by: Holy Grail)
Saint Mary Magdalene Church, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Plot: Crypt below the church
Baldwin I. d. February 4, 1118
Crusader, first King of Jerusalem. He was the younger brother of Godfrey of Bouillon the Potector of the Holy Sepulchre and was supposed to become a priest. In 1096 he joined the first crusade. He followed Tancred of Hauteville and was there when Tancred took Tarsus. He followed the invitation of Thoros of Edessa who later adopted him. After Thoros death he became the first count of Edessa. Godfrey died in July 1100 and on Christmas Day of the same year Baldwin was crowned King of Jerusalem. (Bio by: Lutetia)
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Begin, Menachem b. August 16, 1913 d. March 9, 1992
He was the 6th Prime Minister of Israel. A native of Poland, he fled to the Soviet Union when the Nazis invaded. He was arrested in September of 1940 and charged with espionage. Sentenced to eight years at a concentration camp in Siberia, he was freed in 1941 as part of an accord with the Polish government. His father, mother, and brother died in the Nazi Holocaust. He will be best remembered for signing Israel's first peace treaty with an Arab neighbor, Egypt in 1979. He shared the Nobel...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Mount of Olives Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Buber, Martin b. February 8, 1878 d. June 6, 1965
Jewish philosopher, theologian, Bible translator. He was born in Vienna, he studied in Vienna, Liepzig, Berlin and Zurich, and soon entered the Zionist Movement, more for religious and cultural than for political reasons. With Franz Rosenzweig he translated the Old Testament into German. In 1938 he had to emigrate to Israel. In there he made many efforts to make peace between the Israelis and the Arabs. As a philosopher he is best known for his philosophy of dialogue (in his book "I and Thou"). (Bio by: Apats)
Har HaMenuchot Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Chabannes, Adémar De b. 988 d. 1034
Chronicler, Composer, Literary Forger. A controversial French monk of the Middle Ages. His "Apostolic Mass for St. Martial" (1029) is Europe's earliest surviving music score written in the composer's own hand - and an extraordinary fraud. Adémar was born in Limoges, Limousin, into a family with prominent ties to the Catholic Church. Before 1000 he was pledged as a child oblate to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Cybard in Angoulême, and from 1010 received higher education at the Abbey of St...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Monastery of St. Mary of the Latins (Defunct), Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Constantine X b. 1006 d. May 22, 1067
Byzantine Emperor. He first achieved prominence following his marriage to the noblewoman Eudokia Makrembolitissa, and was a supporter of Isaac I's successful uprising in 1057. While believing himself to be dying in 1059, Isaac was pressured into naming Constantine as his successor, and when Isaac abdicated soon afterwards he took the throne as Constantine X. After taking power he raised members of his own family to important positions and favored the church and bureaucracy at the expense of the...[Read More] (Bio by: js)
Molibotos Monastery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Eliyahu, Rabbi. Mordechai b. May 3, 1929 d. June 7, 2010
Religious Leader. He served as the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993, and was a spiritual leader of the Religious Zionist movement.
Har HaMenuchot Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Eshkol, Levi b. October 25, 1895 d. February 26, 1969
Israeli Pime Minister. Born Levi Skolnik in the Ukraine, he changed his name when he moved to Palestine in 1914. He was elected to the Israeli Knesset in 1951 and became Prime Minister in 1963. He served as Pime Minister until his death on February 26, 1969. He was the first Israeli Pime Minister to die in office. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Mount Herzl National Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Guttfreund, Yossef b. 1932 d. September 6, 1972
Olympic Official. An Israeli judge for the 1972 Olympic Games, he was one of 11 Israelis who were held hostage and murdered in Munich by Palestinian terrorists. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Givat Shaul Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Herzl, Theodor b. May 2, 1860 d. July 3, 1904
Father of Political Zionism, Visionary of the modern State of Israel.
Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary to a middle class, sectarian, a-religious Jewish family. He completed a Doctorate in Law from the University of Vienna, but chose to direct his professional energies as a writer and later columnist for the Neue Freie Presse. The newspaper sent him to Paris to cover the trial of Alfred Dreyfus (1895). Presented with irrepressible French anti-Semitism, compounded by revitalized anti-...[Read More] (Bio by: Jerry klinger)
Cause of death: pneumonia
Mount Herzl National Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Plot: Summit of Mount Herzl
Herzog, Chaim b. September 12, 1918 d. April 17, 1997
He was Israel's sixth president and an outstanding figure in modern Jewish history. (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Cause of death: Unknown
Mount Herzl National Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Jakobovits, Sir. Immanuel b. February 8, 1921 d. October 31, 1999
British Peer. Born Immanuel Jakobovits in Königsberg, East Prussia, the son of Paula Wrescher and Rabbi Julius Jakobovits. He fled to Britain as a teenager to escape Nazi persecution, and completed his education at London University, and at Jews' College, London. He was graduated from Yeshivah Etz Chaim, London in 1944. He married Amélie Munk in 1949, and with her had six children. He held the office of Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1949 and 1958. He served as Rabbi at the 5th Avenue Synagogue...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Mount of Olives Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Jesus of Nazareth
Messiah of Christianity.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre*, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
*This location is unconfirmed or in dispute.
Kahane, Benjamin Ze'ev b. October 3, 1966 d. December 31, 2000
Israeli Politician. Son of assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane, he took over leadership of the Zionist political party Kahane Chai when his father was murdered. His group was classifeid as a terrorist organization in 1994 when one of it's members killed 29 Arabs. He and his wife were murdered when the car he was driving was fired upon. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Har HaMenuchot Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Kahane, Meir b. August 1, 1932 d. November 5, 1990
Jewish Religious Leader. At age 15, he was arrested in a protest against the British policy on Jewish immigration to Palestine. Ordained as an Orthodox rabbi, he earned a law degree from New York University, and became a synagogue rabbi and editor of the Jewish Press. In the 1960s he founded the Jewish Defense League, which advocated the use of violence to defend Jewish rights. After moving to Israel (1971), he founded Kach, a movement aimed at removing Arabs from Israel. He earned a seat in...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Har HaMenuchot Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
King David
Biblical King of Israel. This is the traditionally recognized location of the burial of Israel's historic king.
King David Burial Site*, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
*This location is unconfirmed or in dispute.
Kollek, Theodore b. May 27, 1911 d. January 2, 2007
Jerusalem Mayor. A native of Nagyvazsony, Hungary, Kollek served as the Mayor of Jerusalem, Israel, from 1965 to 1993. A founder of the Kibbutz Ein Gev, Kollek was also a longtime ally of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, serving in his government from 1952 to 1965. (Bio by: K)
Mount Herzl National Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel
Landau, Moshe b. April 29, 1912 d. May 1, 2011
Israeli Jurist. He was best known as the chief judge in the 1961 trial of Nazi arch-criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, who was convicted of war crimes and hanged. He was a member of the Israeli Supreme Court when he was picked to head the three-judge panel for the Eichmann trial. Born in Danzig (part of Germany at that time), he studied law at the University of London and moved to Palestine in 1933. He moved quickly through the judicial system and was appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Har HaMenuchot Cemetery, Jerusalem, Yerushalayim (Jerusalem District), Israel

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