Kever Rashbi, Meron
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai · Meron
Meron is most famous for the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, site of the mass annual Lag BaOmer gathering; Kabbalistic tradition ascribes the Zohar to him.
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🕯️ Kevarim and holy places
Kever HaRambam, Teverya
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (the Rambam) · Tiberias
Per Jewish tradition the Rambam, who died in Fustat, Egypt in 1204, was reinterred in Tiberias; his tomb is one of Israel's most important pilgrimage sites.
Kever Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, Teverya
Rabbi Meir Baal Haness · Tiberias
Since at least 1210 a Rabbi Meir has been described as buried by the Sea of Galilee; pilgrims visit his tomb near Tiberias, and the Yerushalmi records that he asked to be buried by the shore.
Old Cemetery of Tzfas (Kever HaArizal)
Rabbi Yitzchak Luria (the Arizal), and many tzaddikim · Safed
The Arizal died in Safed in 1572 and is buried in the Safed Old Jewish Cemetery.
Kever Rabbi Yonasan ben Uziel, Amuka
Rabbi Yonasan ben Uziel · Amuka (near Tzfas)
Amuka near Safed holds the tomb of Rabbi Yonasan ben Uziel, a site of annual pilgrimage first described in the 12th century.
Me'aras HaMachpela, Chevron
The Avos and Imahos (Avraham, Sarah, Yitzchak, Rivka, Yaakov, Leah) · Hebron
The Cave of Machpelah in Hebron's Old City, burial place of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, which Avraham bought from Ephron.
Kever Rochel
Rochel Imeinu · Bethlehem (northern entrance)
Rachel's Tomb at the northern entrance to Bethlehem, revered as the burial place of the matriarch Rachel.
The Kosel HaMaaravi (place, not a kever)
— (place of tefillah) · Jerusalem (Old City)
The Western Wall, an ancient retaining wall of the Temple Mount; the holiest place where Jews pray today (a place, not a kever).
Kever Shimon HaTzaddik, Yerushalayim
Shimon HaTzaddik · Jerusalem
A medieval tradition places Shimon HaTzaddik's burial in this north Jerusalem tomb; many hold upsherins there on Lag BaOmer as an alternative to Meron.
Kever Rabbi Akiva, Teverya
Rabbi Akiva · Tiberias
Rabbi Akiva's tomb is in Tiberias; on the night of Lag BaOmer pilgrims light bonfires there.
Kever Shmuel HaNavi
Shmuel HaNavi · North of Jerusalem (Nabi Samwil)
A tradition dating to the Byzantine period places the tomb of the prophet Samuel on this hill four km north of Jerusalem.
Har HaZeisim Cemetery
Gedolim and tzaddikim of many generations · Jerusalem
The oldest and most important Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem, about five centuries old in its current form, with tens of thousands of graves.
Kever Dovid HaMelech, Har Tziyon
Dovid HaMelech · Jerusalem (Mount Zion)
A site associated since a 9th-century tradition with the burial of King David.