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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.
Abdu'l-Bahá (Effendí) (Abbás) b. May 23, 1844 d. November 28, 1921
Religious Leader. He was the son of Bahá'u'lláh, who founded the Bahá'í Faith, and succeeded his father as the sect's leader.
Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Hefa (Haifa District), Israel
Plot: Same shrine as The Bab
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
Allon, Yigal b. October 10, 1918 d. February 29, 1980
Israeli Satesman. A leading moderate, he is best remembered for the "Allon Plan," which called for Israeli withdrawal from heavily populated West Bank territory while keeping areas where few Arabs settled. It was never accepted by Jordan, nor by hard-line Israelis. As Foriegn Minister from 1974 to 1977, he played a key role in negotiating the interim agreement with Egypt that paved the way for the 1979 peace treaty. He was a native-born Israeli, a hero of the freedom-fighting Haganah and a...[Read More]
Kibbutz Ginosar Cemetery, Ginosar , Israel
Amit, Meir b. March 17, 1921 d. July 17, 2009
Israeli General, Politician. He was head of the Israel's famed Mossad intelligence agency from 1963 to 1968, and former head of Israel's Defense Forces. Between 1954 and 1963, he served as general of both the southern and northern Israeli commands, and as Golani Brigade Commander. As head of Mossad, he provided the nation's defense forces with vital intelligence during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, which lasted from June 5th to June 10th. The six day war resulted in a decisive Israeli victory over...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Ramat Hasharon Cemetery, Ramat Hasharon, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Baha'u'llah (Ḥusayn-`Alí Núrí) (Mírzá) b. November 12, 1817 d. May 29, 1892
Founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
Son of Khadíjih Khánum (mother) and father Mírzá Buzurg (father).
Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Hefa (Haifa District), Israel
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
Ben-Gurion, David b. October 16, 1886 d. December 1, 1973
Israeli Nationalist, Prime Minister. Born in Poland, he emigrated to what is now Israel in 1906, helping to found the first of many Jewish agricultural communes (later known as the "kibbutz") and also assisting in the establishment of the Hashomer, a group dedicated to Jewish defense. Deported by the Ottoman government in 1915, he worked in the New York Zionist-Socialist movement until 1918, when he returned to the now British-controlled area, designated in 1920 by the League of Nations as a "...[Read More] (Bio by: Stuthehistoryguy)
Kibbutz Sde-Boker Cemetery, Sde Boker, HaDarom (Southern 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 Angoulęme, 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
Dan, Uri b. May 6, 1935 d. December 24, 2006
Author. He wrote many books on Israeli history, including "Blood Libel", "To the Promised Land", and "Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait". For many years he was a New York Post contributor who wrote about Middle Eastern affairs. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Dayan, Moshe b. May 20, 1915 d. October 16, 1981
Israeli general and government official. He was the commanding Israeli officer during the Six Day War and later served as Israeli Defense Minister. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Moshav Nahalal Cemetery, Nahalal, HaZafon (Northern District), Israel
Eban, Abba b. February 2, 1915 d. November 17, 2002
First Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and the United States. One of the major figures in the founding of Israel. Eban published many books about Israel and its history throughout the years, including "Promised Land," "My Country: The Story of Modern Israel," "The Tide of Nationalism," and, in 1998, "Diplomacy for the Next Century." His name at birth was Aubrey Solomon Meir. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Kfar Shmaryahu, Tel Aviv, Israel
Eitan, Gen. Raful b. January 11, 1929 d. November 23, 2004
Israel Army General. Considered one of Israel's greatest war heroes, as a young man he fought in the 1948 War of Independence as a member of the Palmach and was severely wounded in the head. In 1955 as a paratroop officer on a raid into Syria, he was shot several times by a michine gun in the chest. In 1967, as a senior officer, he was again wounded in the head while leading his men in battle. In 1973 he personally grabbed a bazooka during the battle of the Golan and destroyed 3 Syrian tanks...[Read More] (Bio by: Jack Neuman)
Tel Adashim, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv 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
Friedman, Ze'ev b. June 10, 1944 d. September 6, 1972
Olympic Athlete. A weightlifter for the 1972 Israeli Olympic team, he was one of 11 Israeli athletes who were held hostage and murdered in Munich by Palestinian terrorists. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

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