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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


Caring for the graves of Jewish WWII soldiers, 80 years on 

Operation Benjamin: making sure the graves of Jewish American GIs who fell in World War II are properly marked.

 DR. STEWART SADOWSKY and Dr. Samantha Baskind lower the casket of First Lt. Nathan Baskind into the grave, overseen by Normandy American Cemetery superintendent Scott Desjardins.

MKs propose bill to enable burial of terror victims ‘lacking religion’ in Jewish plots

According to the bill, terrorists do not differentiate between these and other Israelis, and their families should therefore be allowed to bury their loved ones alongside Jews.

The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives

Jewish cemetery in Montreal desecrated with stone Nazi swastikas

Hampstead mayor Jeremy Levi condemned the Kehal Israel cemetery memorial park's vandalism, in which the stones traditionally placed on graves out of respect and to mark a visit were misappropriated. 

  Montreal, Canada /

Nearly 200 Jewish gravestones vandalized in Ohio

The JCGC and federation called for those seeking to help to donate to the JCGC’s monument repair fund. 

 Beth Abraham Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio.

Religious services minister: Northern burial services preparing for a 'major scenario'

Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli also rejected the idea that Shas would topple a right-wing government it had done everything to create.

 Sgt. Maj. (res.) Eliran Mizrahi's funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on June 13, 2024

'Sick massacre:' Three family members are butchered in Nazareth murder-suicide

A shooter in Nazareth targets family members before committing suicide, leaving three dead and others injured. Police view it as a family conflict, not criminal activity.

 Nazareth, Galilee region with the Basilica of Annunciation on background.

Israel owes David Ben Avraham a Jewish burial - editorial

Despite his conversion not being recognized, this man persevered through so much grief in his life and deserves the chance to be buried next to people of his chosen faith.

Har HaMenuchot cemetery, Jerusalem

Rabbis call for convert killed by IDF to be buried in a Jewish cemetery

The 63-year-old victim, whom the soldiers suspected of being a security risk, was known as David Ben Avraham by Jews who knew him, but was born Saamach Zeitoun.

The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives

IDF names soldier killed in battle in southern Gaza

Kabeda served in the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion in the 7th Armored Brigade.

Fallen IDF Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Andu’alem Kabeda, 21, from Kiryat Gat.

Swastikas found on gravestones at Cleveland Jewish cemetery

The Cleveland Jewish Federation called the vandalism "absolutely sickening."

Swastika on a wall (illustrative)