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IDF recovers remains of final hostage Ran Gvili after covert operations in northern Gaza

The military rushed to find Gvili's remains as the clock ticked down for Israel to reopen the Rafah Border Crossing.

St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili
Mourners carry a coffin during a funeral procession for members of security forces and civilians said to be killed in protests on Sunday, amid evolving anti-government unrest, in Tehran, Iran, in this screengrab from a video released on January 11, 2026.

Iran admits at least 3,000 killed in protest crackdown, UN dismayed by 'horrific violence'

Four young suspects were arrested on Sunday night on suspicion of vandalizing headstones and causing damage to a cemetery in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Four arrested for vandalism, destruction of cemetery near Old City

A four-wheeled canopy wagon was recovered from the Lchashen cemetery near Lake Sevan, December 29, 2025.

Bronze Age ‘covered wagon’ emerges as Armenia’s best-preserved ancient vehicle


Only Jewish cemetery in Gulf states gets new life as peace flourishes

The Bahrain institutions also serve the Jewish community in the United Arab Emirates.

 The Jewish cemetery in Manama, Bahrain

Biden appoints TV star to run heritage preservation commission

Trump officials criticized the appointment of Jones, just weeks before Paul Packer's term was supposed to end in February.

Mikheil Batiashvili, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia, and Paul Packer, Chairman of the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, sign a Memorandum of Understanding in Tiblisi this week

Mantua, Italy, building Jewish museum on burial site of Kabbalist masters

The Jewish cemetery of San Nicolò is located in Mantua, a small northern Italian town in the Po Valley with a Jewish history dating back to the 12th century.

 A neglected armory in Mantua, Italy, will become a "House of Remembrance" to spotlight the town's Jewish history.

Battle for 500-year-old Vilna Jewish cemetery turns a corner

“Save Vilna is currently in the process of putting together the Save Vilna Restoration Proposal, which we will be submitting to the government for consideration.”

 Demonstration outside Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Neo-Nazis desecrate Jewish graves in Tasmanian cemetery

The white supremacists reportedly placed 'white force' stickers on tombstones at the Jewish section of the cemetery.

DETAILS ON a Jewish grave in Poland

Plaques give context to Dutch cemetery where Nazis buried near WWII victims

New plaques were unveiled, acknowledging that it is the burial place of war criminals.

Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery.

Claims of Israel bulldozing Palestinian graves are libel - opinion

Twitter was in an uproar after a video was posted of a woman grasping her son's grave as officials try to drag her away.

 Arab families argue with authorities about construction near graves of their relatives near Yusufiya Cemetery

French interior min. insists on right of public religious dress

Darmanin insisted that religious dress be allowed in public during dedication of restored graves vandalized in antisemitic attack in 2015.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin places a stone on a recently restored gravestone

Arabs clash with police near Yusufiya cemetery in Jerusalem

Arabs clashed with police near the Yusufiya Cemetery in east Jerusalem, as controversy surrounding illegal graves continued.

 Arab families argue with authorities about construction near graves of their relatives near Yusufiya Cemetery

Gravestone epitaph accuses hospital of 'murdering' woman in COVID ward

A hospital expressed outrage after an engraving on a gravestone accused it of murdering a woman in the COVID ward.

The Rabin Medical Center - Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva