1.7 km to seaest. 1964
Beit HaAlmin
Southern Jewish Cemetery of the Tel Aviv District (1964). Approximately 200,000 burials, memorials to Holocaust victims. Non-residential property.
About the district
A large Jewish cemetery in the southeastern part of Bat Yam, on the border with Holon and Rishon le-Zion, near the Kumemiyut interchange on Highway 20. The official name is "Beit ha-Almin ha-Darom" ("Southern Cemetery"). It is also commonly called "Holon" or "Bat Yam" because historically it had an entrance only from the eastern side (from Holon), and the northern entrance (from the Bat Yam side) was added later.
Established in 1964 after burial spaces were exhausted at the Tel Aviv cemeteries Nahalat Yitzhak and Trumpeldor. The original area was 500 dunams, later expanded to approximately 800 dunams. Today there are approximately 200,000 burials here.
The cemetery is Jewish, managed by Hevra Kadisha Rabbanut Tel Aviv–Yafo. There are separate sections for different communities (Ashkenazi, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and others). The memorials to Holocaust victims are of great significance—this is one of the largest "places of memory" of the Holocaust in Gush Dan.
History
The cemetery was consecrated by the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv Isser Yehuda Unterman on the 7th of Adar 1964; the first burial took place in Iyar 1964.
For approximately 15 years (until the opening of the Yarkon cemetery), it served as the main regional cemetery of the Tel Aviv district. Today it contains approximately 200,000 burials, and the cemetery is classified by Bituach Leumi as "closed" — new burials are limited, primarily consisting of family reburials.
Among the special sections: a military section (for fallen IDF soldiers), a section for "Bereaved Parents," a children's section, and numerous memorials to Holocaust victims — including memorials with ashes from extermination camps buried beneath them.
What's nearby
Military Section
IDF soldiers fallen in defense of Israel.
Holocaust Memorials
One of the largest Holocaust memorial sites in Gush Dan.
Bereaved Parents' Section