Jerusalem War Cemetery

The Jerusalem War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in for fallen servicemen of the Commonwealth in the World War I in the Palestine campaign.
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: cemetery in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Jerusalem British war cemetery” and “Jerusalem British War Cemetery”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mount Scopus and Jerusalem Memorial.

Peak
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Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claims it as its capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.

Memorial
Photo: Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Police station
The National Headquarters of the Israel Police is the headquarters of the Israel Police, located in in . is situated 670 metres west of Jerusalem War Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kiryat Menachem Begin and French Hill.

Neighborhood
, named after former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also known as Kiryat HaMemshala, is a complex of government buildings in located between in the north, adjacent to in the east and in the west.

Suburb
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, also Giv'at Shapira is an Israeli settlement in northern . It is located on territory that has been occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967 and later unilaterally annexed by Israel under the Jerusalem Law, in a move internationally condemned as illegal, "null and void" under international law, in 1980.

Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in , two kilometres north of the Old City, on the road to . It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity.

Jerusalem War Cemetery

Latitude
31.79843° or 31° 47′ 54″ north
Longitude
35.23969° or 35° 14′ 23″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6XQ+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 31451496
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Wiki­data ID
Q6185108
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Portuguese—“Jerusalem War Cemetery” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقبرة الحرب العالمية الأولى (القدس)”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة الحرب العالمية الأولى”
  • Bulgarian: “Британско военно гробище в Йерусалим”
  • Bulgarian: “Британско военно гробище”
  • Catalan: “Cementeri de guerra britànic de Jerusalem”
  • Czech: “Britský vojenský hřbitov v Jeruzalémě”
  • Danish: “Jerusalem British War Cemetery”
  • Esperanto: “Brita milita tombejo en Jerusalemo”
  • French: “Cimetière militaire britannique de Jérusalem”
  • French: “cimetière militaire de Jérusalem”
  • Greek: “Βρετανικό Πολεμικό Νεκροταφείο της Ιερουσαλήμ”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות הבריטי בירושלים”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות הצבאי הבריטי (הר הצופים)”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות הצבאי הבריטי בירושלים”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות הצבאי הבריטי”
  • Japanese: “イギリス戦没者墓地”
  • Macedonian: “Британски воени гробишта - Ерусалим”
  • Portuguese: “Cemitério militar britânico de Jerusalém”

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