Closing circle of the Mount of Olives after 71 years

Arutz Sheva brought the story of the Sbadon family, which closes a 71-year-old family circle with the location of Lulu's grandmother's grave.

Eliahu, the 84-year-old grandson, tells the story of the grandmother who died about ten days before the UN's vote on the Israeli statehood on November 29 and has was buried unhindered on the Mount of Olives, as is customary among the Jews of Jerusalem.

"There was no reason not to hold the funeral," he said, but a few days later, events that prevented the family from reaching its burial ground occurred before they could lay a tombstone on the grave.

"A week later, on November 29, the Arabs started firing at Jews on the sidelines of the Old City and the Mount of Olives, under the pretext of protecting the Jews, the British prevented the Jews from entering. in the Mount of Olives ". The family hoped that at the end of the seven-day mourning period, she could reach the burial site, "but in reality, it was more difficult."

"The time was pbading and the connection with the old city was becoming more difficult, the Jews almost never arrived there.We could not lay a tombstone.On May 15, 1948, the state was created and the situation in Jerusalem was even more serious when a disunity was created between the eastern part of the besieged city and the western part of the city, we remained without being able to do what we wanted, put a gravestone on the grave of our grandmother.

Sbadon continues the story of his family: "Until the Six Day War, we only thought about it and hoped to get there." After the Six Day War, my father, Yaakov, my grandmother's eldest son, left with his brother to go to the grave and erect a tombstone, but we could not get close to it because the Jordanians paved a road inside the cemetery and all that bothered them, stones, gravestones and tombs were scattered on the sides of the road, the sides of the road were full of overturned tombs and it was impossible to access them because everything was covered with what had been removed from the road.

"It has been years, every time we came to the Mount of Olives in the hope of reaching the tomb, it was impossible," Sbadon said. She begins to talk about it today: "We recently received a message from the Burial Society, an organization that is doing outstanding work there, you can reach the area and locate the grave. She was buried next to her father-in-law, Rabbi Sbadon.After the investigation of the funeral society's records and researches, the grandmother was buried without burial., we were able to locate the place of burial among the Yotzei Bavel ground. We found his tomb without a gravestone. "

The family prepares to arrive at the scene with a gravestone that she will place on the grave of the deceased grandmother, 71 years after her burial.