Jerusalem is running out of space for graves.
So an Israeli burial organization has teamed with a cutting-edge construction firm to bore deep under a mountain here to create a vast underground necropolis — with elevators.
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The first phase of the new subterranean city of the dead will include 22, 000 crypts, arranged floor to ceiling in three tiers, in a network of intersecting tunnels now being dug through the rocky clay soil beneath Jerusalem’s largest cemetery…
By William Booth and Ruth Eglash