Israel set to open world’s first underground cemetery
As an increasingly crowded country, Israel has come up with an innovative solution for burying its dead.
Far below Jerusalem’s main cemetery of Har Hamenuchot, which dominates hillsides above the highway leading into Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, a new underground burial site is being built.
The cemetery covering the hills above is almost at capacity, with nearly a quarter of a million graves.
Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Cemetery has embraced vertical cemetery structures to accommodate growing demand, but now Israel is looking for solutions below ground.
Euronews