Garden of the Missing in Action
Coordinates: 31°46′34.18″N 35°10′46.94″E / 31.7761611°N 35.1797056°E
The Garden of the Missing in Action (Hebrew: גן הנעדרים , <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Gan HaNe'edarim) is a memorial garden in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. It is in the National Military and Police cemetery of Israel. The garden is dedicated to the missing in action whose bodies were never found from 1914 to today. There is also a temporary monument for the unknown soldiers. It is planned to move this to the National Memorial Hall. The memorial includes names of Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers and officers who have served in the Israeli Army and Israeli Police. The garden was built in 1954 a short time after an ancient Jewish cave was discovered nearby. It became the Garden of the Missing in 2004. The garden includes "empty graves" with a memorial board with all the names of the missing in action next to a memorial plaza.
The Operation Boatswain Memorial is next to the garden.
Gallery
Memorial for Eli Cohen.
the Operation Boatswain Memorial next to the garden
Other websites
- Official web site (in Hebrew) Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Stamp commemorating the opening of the Garden of the Missing Soldiers Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine by the Israel Postal Company
- Israeli Soldiers "Missing in Action" Archived 2016-06-10 at the Wayback Machine