An underground cemetery with 22,000 kevorim is under construction beneath Yerushalayim’s Har Hamenuchos cemetery. The unique project was a runner up in a contest of the International Tunneling and Underground Space Association to find the world’s most “innovative underground space concept of the year.”
With a price tag of $50 million, the cave’s half mile long tunnels are expected to be completed within a decade. Graves are being excavated in the tunnel floors or drilled into the tunnel wall like burial-cave niches of old.
Supervised by Rav Shlomo Neiman, the cemetery will belong to the Kehillas Yerushalayim Chevra Kaddisha. Plots will cost a half to a quarter of the price of above ground kevorim.
{Matzav.com Israel}
They should have asked the Arabs of gaza how to do it for them, they are great at building underground tunnels, and if you told them it was a cemetery for jews they might even do the work for free !
Several weeks ago the Gerer Chevra Kadisha asked their Rebbe shlit”a if they should open up a new cemetery in Beit Shemesh because the one in Har Hamenuchos is full. He answered them it’s not necessary anymore… Halevai we should all merit Mashiach very very soon.
So why do you show a photo of the Har Hazeisim?