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Shomrei Shabbos Cemetery

Shomrei Shabbos Cemetery, Jewish cemetery in Bnei Brak, Israel.

Shomrei Shabbos is the oldest cemetery of Bnei Brak, founded by Yaakov Halperin on 15 dunams in the city's south. Most graves have simple, uniform markers, many without an upright stone, and flowers are not placed on them. Graves of IDF soldiers are scattered among the others rather than grouped in a separate section.

The cemetery was established in 1941 to provide burial grounds for the growing Jewish population in the region. This foundation marked an important moment for the emerging Jewish community in Bnei Brak.

The name comes from the condition set for burial: observing Shabbat. Graves are kept plain and uniform, most without an upright stone, and flowers are not placed on them. The Vizhnitz rebbe Yisrael Hager was reinterred here in 1949, and the ohel over his grave holds later Vizhnitz rebbes.

The cemetery lies in the southern part of Bnei Brak, next to the Ponevezh Yeshiva rabbis' cemetery and the Vizhnitz cemetery. Almost no burial plots remain free, so the grounds are crowded with graves; visitors walk among them on foot. The Vizhnitz ohel over the rebbe's grave is a built structure to look for.

The cemetery's best-known grave is that of Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, the Chazon Ish, a pilgrimage focus all year and especially on his yahrzeit. Next to it his brother-in-law Rabbi Shmuel Greineman bought a plot for the family, where Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, the Steipler, is buried. Halperin also bought a plot there for himself and his family and in 1948 reburied his father, who had died in childhood in Galicia.

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