Shaare Zedek Cemetery, Jerusalem
The Shaare Zedek Cemetery is a small Jewish burial ground located behind the first Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. Originally used by the hospital as farmland for grazing milk cows, the area was converted into a temporary cemetery during the Arab siege of Jerusalem in 1948. Approximately 200 burials were conducted here between March and October of that year. Most graves were transferred to permanent cemeteries after the war, but a handful remain, notably those of several prominent Jerusalem rabbis and the founding director of Shaare Zedek Hospital, Dr. Moshe Wallach.
Shaare Zedek Cemetery, Jerusalem
The cemetery in relation to the old Shaare Zedek Hospital building (middle background), today headquarters of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
Graves of the first Dushinsky Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (foreground) and his son, Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky, second Dushinsky Rebbe (background)
Graves of Rabbi Yechiel Michel Schlesinger (right) and his son, Rabbi Avraham Schlesinger (middle)
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
The Shaare Zedek Medical Center is a large teaching hospital in Jerusalem. It was established in 1902 and is affiliated with Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Shaare Zedek in the 1950s
Original Shaare Zedek hospital building on Jaffa Road, now headquarters of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
