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Burial prices in Iran skyrocket by up to 50% after Tehran council approves new tariff - report

For a 10 km journey, families will now need to pay 9.75 million rials, not including the costs of ritual washing, the shroud, cold storage before burial, and gravestone installation.

Graves of recently-buried people killed in US-Israeli airstrikes are pictured at Beheshta Zahra cemetery on the southern outskirts of Tehran on March 9, 2026.
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.

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

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


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

Libya’s Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online.

“I was horrified to see children playing atop the ruins of the Tripoli Jewish cemetery, scampering about debris littered with human remains,” says David Gerbi, who left Libya many years ago.

Libyan Jewish exile David Gerbi prays inside Dar Bishi synagogue in Tripoli October 1, 2011. Gerbi and his family fled Tripoli in 1967 when an Arab-Israeli war stoked anger against the Jewish state and led to attacks on Jews in his neighbourhood. Gaddafi expelled the rest of Libya's 38,000 Jews two

Jews, Christians and Muslims to paint over swastikas in Argentinian Jewish cemetery

The ceremony included evangelical Christians, Catholics and Muslims as well as representatives from a host of local groups, and it was streamed online.

 The Jewish cemetery of La Tablada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pictured in 2013.

More than 100 headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Argentina

Over 100 headstones were smashed at the historic Tablada cemetery in Buenos Aires, in a second such incident since 2009.

 The Jewish cemetery of La Tablada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pictured in 2013.

Ancient warrior found buried with his steed and his dog

The burial site was used in the early Bronze Age and the Jutes took it over 2,500 years later.

 Early Anglo-Saxon horse and dog burial