Mount Olives Cemetery, Jerusalem

Mount Olives (הַר הַזֵּיתִים) is situated to the east of the Old City of Jerusalem, as a barrier between the city and the Judean Desert. The mountain provides a breathtaking view of the Temple Mount, and because of its proximity to the Temple, it was naturally adopted as the first Jewish cemetery of Jerusalem. Since the time of the first Temple, Mount Olives has been used as a Jewish cemetery, containing approximately 150,000 graves.

Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani are buried in the section of the victims of the destructive Arab Riots of 1929 of the cemetery. Menachem Begin, the commander of the Irgun and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel, requested to be buried near Feinstein and Barazani.

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Visiting the Graves of Fenstein and Barazani

We visited the graves of Feinstein and Barazani on May 5, 2019, as part of the tour by "Reshit Jerusalem" with the tour guide Hodaya Alter הודיה אלתר. The following video gives some of the glimpses from this scenic tour. No one can doubt that Mount Olives has one of the most beautiful views of the old city of Jerusalem.

Hodaya told the story of Menachem Begin, Meir's commander and the sixth prime minister of Israel. She referred to Begin's famous 1981 elections speech in which he demonstrated the unity of the nation with the story of Moshe and Meir. My older brother, Eliezer Feinstein, said the the Kaddish at the graves of Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani.

At the graves of Meir and Moshe: Oded Meir Amitai, the son of Rachel Kramer-Rechtman is on the left of Moshe's grave, and Chemda Elias-Rechtman, Rachel's daughter, is standing on the right of Meir's grave. I am standing to the right of my brother Eliezer, and our guide, Hodaya Alter, is standing to the left of Eliezer. Picture courtesy of Hodaya Alter.