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Gravestones toppled in Romanian Jewish cemetery where Gantz's family is buried

Police were reportedly notified of the incident on Sunday morning and later said they treat such acts with the "utmost seriousness."

Tomb stones of Jewish soldiers fallen during the WWI on the side of the Romanian Army, witness the once large Jewish comunity of Iasi, on February 2, 2024 at the Jewish Cemetary in Iasi, eastern Romania.
President Isaac Herzog hosts bereaved families in the President's Residence, Jerusalem, February 15, 2026; illustrative.

Herzog vows Israel will never stop searching for Ron Arad at missing soldiers memorial

Buildings lie in ruins amidst the rubble in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 8, 2025.

IDF confirms Gaza Commonwealth war cemetery damaged in operation to destroy Hamas terror tunnels

Israel's burial grounds shortage is worse than that predicted by the state comptroller in 2024.

Israel might be on verge of burial crisis with cemeteries struggling for burial space


Touring the Jewish catacombs of Rome

Roman Jews do not consider the Jewish catacombs in their city as archaeological sites; to them, these are the graves of their ancestors, which they regard with great reverence

 TEMPLE BOOTY: The menorah as seen as part of the Roman Triumphal panel on the Arch of Titus.

Yemenite Children Affair: Grave of child to be opened for first time

A DNA test will be conducted as part of attempts to uncover details on the Yemenite Children Affair.

 JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish soldiers are buried under crosses around the world. A rabbi’s nonprofit is changing that.

The placement of crosses was often the result of administrative error in war times, or of soldiers obscuring their Jewish identities during a war in which Nazis summarily executed Jews.

ONE OF MORE than 170 Jewish headstones lies toppled following an attack on Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, in 2017.

Russians attack Jewish cemetery outside of Kyiv - Ukrainian rabbi

'American and Israeli organizations claim to have donated to our community, but we haven’t seen a penny.'

 Chabbad Rabbi Moshe Reuven Asman stands outside the Chabad Tehila synagoguein the renewing Jewish community near the village of Antebka near the city of Kiev in Ukraine, on February 14, 2018.

Satellite images reveal mass graves dug outside of Mariupol, Ukraine

Russian forces have been accused of making these graves shortly after capturing the city.

 A BOY walks past graves of civilians who, according to local residents in Bucha, were killed by Russian soldiers. The inscription on the cross in the middle reads: 'Unknown'.

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