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IDF headstones to include abduction note if soldier was kidnapped, Knesset announces

The new legislation follows a Defense Ministry announcement on Sunday that 1,318 members of Israel's security forces have been killed across all conflict fronts since October 7, 2023.

 Israeli flags on graves of fallen soldiers in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 9, 2024, ahead of Israeli Memorial Day; Illustrative.
A tractor which drove over graves, smashed gravestones, and dug directly into graves in the Brzesko cemetery in Poland.

Jewish cemetery in Poland damaged by bulldozer during unsupervised repairs, org. tells 'Post'

The founder of political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, is buried on the mountain named after him in 1949.

Is Israel the Jewish state that Theodor Herzl dreamed of? – opinion

IDF officers meet with the family of the late soldier, Private Yaakov Zrihan.

After 78 years, IDF locates burial site of Pvt. Yaakov Zrihan, who went missing in Independence War


Mass grave of Nazi victims found at Hartheim Castle in Austria

From May 1940 to November 1944, about 30,000 people, including disabled individuals, mental patients, prisoners, and laborers, were killed in gas chambers at Hartheim Castle and burned.

 Hartheim Castle became notorious as one of the 6 centers for the Nazi killing program known as Action T4.

Researchers uncover 2,100-year-old mass grave of dismembered Han soldiers in southern Mongolia

DNA tests confirm remains are of soldiers linked to modern Han and northern Chinese populations.

 Researchers uncover 2,100-year-old mass grave of dismembered Han soldiers in southern Mongolia.

Thief steals 5,000-year-old 500kg megalith from Immekath I grave

In addition to the seized stone from the megalithic grave, investigators discovered on the property of the convicted individual eight other stones arranged in a circle.

 Megalith tomb.

Graves of ‘Eaves children’ found surrounding lost medieval Church of St. Godehard

As archaeologists began excavations at the site, they unearthed at least 30 graves of infants and young children, including newborns, buried outside the church's sanctuary and in mass graves.

 Graves of ‘Eaves children’ found surrounding lost medieval Church of St. Godehard.

Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world

In the last few years, a new form of life has come to the cemetery. Young people stand in between the gravestones, chattering, laughing, and digging with shovels.

 Gravestones under restoration at Warsaw's largest Jewish cemetery, September 2024.

Iraqi authorities exhume remains of over 100 Kurdish women and children from mass grave

 Exhumed clothing of victims of Anfal genocide, 3rd International Conference on Mass Graves in Iraq, Erbil, Iraq.