Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery

Grave of Avraham Stern.

• Abba Ahimeir (1897–1962), ideologue of Revisionist Zionism[6]
• Moshe Avigdor Amiel, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, 1936–1945[1]
• Hansi Brand (1912–2000), Hungarian Zionist activist[7]
• Joel Brand (1906–1964), Hungarian Zionist activist[7]
• Avraham Cholodenko (1871–1942), Liberal Zionist activist.
• Rudolf Kastner (1906–1957), Hungarian Zionist activist[8]
• Ya'akov Meridor (1913–1995), Revisionist Zionist activist, Irgun commander and Israeli politician
• Avraham Stern (1907–1942), head of the "Stern Gang" paramilitary organization[1][9]
• Isaiah Jarcho (1871–1941), Russian-American Zionist and first Director of Ahuza Aleph Raanana and owner of Gan Rena outdoor theater in Tel Aviv.
• Ya'akov Rusonik (1928–1948), Polish Jew and Zionist, member of the "Lechi" (a.k.a. "The Stern Gang").

• Jiří Langer (1894–1943), Hebrew poet[10]
• Moshe Schnitzer (1921–2007), President of the Israel Diamond Exchange[11]

Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery is the resting place of Rebbes from the Sadigura, Shtefanesht, Bohush, Sassov, and Strozinitz Hasidic dynasties.[1] They include:

• Rabbi Avrohom Mattisyohu Friedman (1847–1933), second Shtefaneshter Rebbe. Though Friedman died and was buried in Romania, his gravesite was threatened with demolition in the 1960s and his Hasidim paid to reinter his remains in Israel. He was reburied in the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in 1968 in a funeral attended by thousands. Every year on his yahrtzeit (anniversary of death), thousands of Jews come to pray at his grave.[12]
• Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, (1884–1961), third Sadigura Rebbe
• Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, (1928–2013), fifth Sadigura Rebbe[13]
• Rabbi Mordechai Sholom Yosef Friedman (1897–1979), fourth Sadigura Rebbe
• Rabbi Yisrael Moshe Friedman (1955–2020), sixth Sadigura Rebbe

The first memorial to the 16 Irgun fighters and 3 IDF soldiers who perished in the 1948 sinking of the Altalena cargo ship was erected in the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in 1998,[14] where gravesites of the fallen are located.[15] Starting with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, all Prime Ministers of Israel attend the annual state memorial service at the cemetery, which is held on the day of the sinking.[15][16]

(R. to l.) Holocaust memorials to the destroyed communities of Drohobych and Borysław, Harovishov, Koritz, and Podwolocyska.

Babi Yar memorial

Lithuania memorial

Mir memorial

Treblinka memorial

Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery is the site of more than a dozen memorials to Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, paid for by the survivors of those communities. Under many memorials are reinterred the ashes of Jewish victims. Large memorials to the destroyed shtetls of Lithuania and Lida, and victims of the Babi Yar massacre, feature prominently along the central avenue of the western section of the cemetery. More than a dozen smaller memorials are arranged in a group along the northern wall of this section. Memorial services are held by survivors of the respective shtetls on Israel's Yom HaShoah (National Holocaust Remembrance Day),[17] or on the date of that community's massacre.[18] The Holocaust memorials include:

The memorial to the victims of Babi Yar, in the shape of three connected stone arches with the name "Babi Yar" spelled out in Hebrew letters (Hebrew: באבי יאר), also commemorates the decimated Jewish communities of Bobruisk, Kovno, and Kiev with small brass plaques at the base of each arch.[19] The memorial was erected over bone fragments from Babi Yar that were reinterred at the cemetery. The bones were brought out of Ukraine by three American college students in July 1971. The memorial was dedicated in 1972 by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.[20] The memorial is the site of an annual memorial ceremony on Yom HaShoah.[21]

A memorial to these decimated Ukrainian communities was erected in the late 1950s by the Association of Former Residents of Drohobycz, Borysław and Surrounding Towns,[22] and an annual memorial service held here.[23]

The memorial to Lithuanian Jews killed in the Holocaust was unveiled in 1981 by the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel. The original monument included the names of 224 destroyed Lithuanian shtetls[24] in raised bronze lettering.[25] Remains of Jews executed at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, were buried under the monument. In 2007 the monument was refurbished and the names of the shtetls were engraved on two black granite slabs on its base.[25][17]

The Mir memorial was erected by former residents of that town in 1950.[26] An annual memorial ceremony is held here on the anniversary of the 9 November 1941 massacre of the inhabitants of the Mir Ghetto.[18]

The Committee for the Organization of Ex-Citizens of Podwolocyska established this memorial, which incorporates blood-soaked earth gathered from the mass grave in that shtetl. A memorial service is held here each year on 7 Tammuz, the date of the massacre of the Jews of Podwolocyska.[27]

A memorial to Jews murdered at the Treblinka extermination camp was erected in 1963 by the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Rabbi Yitzhak Yedidya Frankel. Frankel constructed the stone memorial after traveling to Poland with an Israeli delegation in 1963 to attend a Polish government ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On their side trip to the Treblinka extermination camp, Frankel witnessed a field strewn with human bones, and was told that while the locals continually tried to bury and even pour asphalt over the mass grave, the bones continually rose to the surface. Frankel gathered up some of the bones in a newspaper and returned with them to Tel Aviv, where he built the memorial and buried the bones beneath it.[28]