Catacombs are Israel’s most high-profile attempt yet to solve an strange problem: the shortage of places to bury its deadBeneath Jerusalem’s main cemetery at Givat Shaul,one of several enormous new tunnels disappears into the hillside. Inside the hill, the tunnels department into a grid of three “avenues and seven “streets”. Looking up from the centre of the grid, or an imposing shaft rises dozens of metres to the cemetery garden above.
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Source: guardian.co.uk