Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent: Jerusalem to build city's first non-Orthodox secular burial site
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Title: Not enough land for burial sites, crematorium needed ! Name: Benjamina City: State: Holland
When will Israel start building and opening proper crematories? not like the one near Hadera, that was a primitive construction called crematorium. Israel has to face the future problem now: not enough space to bury the dead. Not everyone will use crematories, okay that is fine, but a lot of secular Jews are pro-cremation. There is no Jewish law which forbids cremation, it is not done in Israel because it reminds of the ovens in the concentration camps of WW2. Understandably, BUT let`s be realistic, shortage of land is a problem and needs realistic measures soon.