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Securing the Mount of Olives Cemetery(25:11)
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Religious Affairs Minister David Azulay looks at desecrated tomb stones at the Mount of Olives cemetery. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Members of an international committee fighting to preserve Judaism's holiest graveyard against neglect and defilement join VOI's Yishai Fleisher.
The Mount of Olives cemetery, which has more than 150,000 Jewish graves, has been neglected and desecrated, and its visitors and mourners attacked. It is time to take a stand, says the International Committee for the Preservation of Har HaZeitim (ICPHH), which is committed to stopping the defilement of this hallowed ground. Jeff Daube, Israel Director of the ZOA, Abe Lubinsky, chair of the ICPHH and Dr. Paul Rosenstock, an internist and volunteer with the committee explain why the battle must be fought and won.
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