Notables

Har HaZeitim — the Mount of Olives — is the resting place of over 150,000 Jews. Some of the more prominent names are listed below.

Prophets

• Zechariah
• Malachi
• Chagai
• Chuldah

Rabbis

• Chaim ibn Attar, the Ohr Hachaim
• Levi Yitzchok Bender, leader of the Breslov community in Uman and Jerusalem
• Avrohom Blumenkrantz, American Orthodox Rabbi
• Yehoshua Leib Diskin, Rabbi in Brisk and Jerusalem
• Shlomo Elyashiv, Lithuanian kabbalist
• Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rosh Yeshiva Slabodka, Lithuania
• Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Alter of Slabodka
• Abraham Gershon of Kitov, brother-in-law of the Baal Shem Tov
• Shimon Hakham, Bukharian writer and translator of Jewish holy texts and stories in Judeo-Tajik
• Moshe Halberstam, Rosh Yeshiva Tschakava
• Yitzchok Hutner, rosh yeshivas Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Brooklyn, New York
• Judah he-Hasid, 17th-century immigration leader
• Rabbi Dr. Lord Immanuel Jacobovits, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, 1967-1991
• Aryeh Kaplan, American Orthodox Rabbi and author
• Zvi Yehuda Kook, Rosh Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav
• Avidgor Miller, American Orthodox Rabbi, author and lecturer
• Shlomo Moussaieff, Bukharian family patriarch
• Nahmanides, the Ramban
• Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers, Bohemian Rabbi and Kabbalist
• Obadiah ben Abraham, the Bartenura
• Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim, Rosh Yeshiva Mir
• Zundel Salant, rabbi and primary teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter
• Yechezkel Sarna, Rosh Yeshiva Slabodka/Chevron
• Sholom Schwadron, the “Maggid of Jerusalem”
• Avraham Shapira, Rosh Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav
• Shalom Sharabi, the Rashash
• Yaakov Chaim Sofer, the Kaf Hachaim
• Ahron Soloveichik, Rosh Yeshiva Brisk, Chicago
• Pesach Stein, Rosh Yeshiva Telz, Cleveland, Ohio
• Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, head of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem

Hasidic Rebbes

• • Simcha Bunim Alter, fifth Gerrer Rebbe
  • Yisrael Alter, fourth Gerrer Rebbe
  • Maiden of Ludmir, female Hasidic Rebbe
  • Moshe Biderman, Lelover Rebbe
  • Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, second Bostoner Rebbe
  • Yosef Leifer, first Pittsburger Rebbe
  • Yechiel Yehoshua Rabinowicz, Shedlitser Rebbe
  • Issamar Rosenbaum, Nadvorna Rebbe
  • Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub, Modzitzer Rebbe

Chief Rabbis

• Solomon Eliezer Alfandari, Chief Rabbi of Damascus and Safed
• Meir Auerbach, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
• Chaim Berlin, Chief Rabbi of Moscow
• Jacob Saul Elyashar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Ottoman Palestine
• Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, London
• Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine
• Jacob Meir, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine
• Meyer Rosenbaum, Chief Rabbi of Cuba
• Shmuel Salant, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
• Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
• Isser Yehuda Unterman, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel

Cultural Figures

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer
• Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• Judah Alkalai, Zionist pioneer
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Israeli linguist
• Harry Fischel, American businessman and philanthropist
• Israel Dov Frumkin, Israeli journalist
• Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist
• Yossele Rosenblatt, hazzan and composer
• Else Lasker-Schüler, German-Jewish poet
• Boris Schatz, founder of the Bezalel School in Jerusalem
• Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah Women’s Organization
• Ephraim Urbach, Israeli scholar

Political Figures & Notables

• Eliyahu Asheri, Israeli terror victim
• Moshe Barazani, Israeli independence fighter
• Menahem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister
• Nissim Behar, Zionist educator
• Israel Eldad, Israeli independence fighter
• Meir Feinstein, Israeli independence fighter
• Jacob Israël de Haan, Dutch Jewish journalist assassinated by the Haganah
• Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, terror victims
• Moshe Hirsch, leader of Neturei Karta
• Robert Maxwell, Member of Parliament
• Boedil Thurgotsdatter, medieval Danish Queen

And many, many more. Help us to ensure their resting place is a place of rest.

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