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Yarkon Cemetery (Hebrew: בית העלמין ירקון) is the main cemetery for the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area of Israel. It is located within the Petah Tikva city limits, between the Yarkon River in the West, Highway 5 in the North, and the 491 road from East and South.

History

The need to establish the cemetery was driven by crowding in the Southern Cemetery in Bat Yam. A number of locations were considered, including the area north of Ramat Aviv. The eventual location was preferred for being relatively far from the center of Tel Aviv. The cemetery was opened by chief rabbis Hayim David HaLevi and Israel Meir Lau in 1991.

Yarkon Cemetery is now the only cemetery in the Dan Region where plots are available free of charge, serving Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Holon, Bat Yam, Kiryat Ono and other cities in the center of the country.^[1] An elliptical road surrounds the central part, giving access to the cemetery and parking areas by traffic and buses. There are three memorial halls close to the road. One of the problems of the cemetery is the rising water level of the Yarkon River during rainy winters.

With the traditional burial grounds at near capacity, with 110,000 graves across 150 acres, a series of 30 vertical structures are under construction that will provide space for 250,000 more graves.^[2]

Notable interred

David Avidan (1934–1995), Israeli poet
Shosh Atari (1949–2008), Israeli radio personality
Yona Atari (1933–2019), Israeli singer and actress
Sasha Argov (1914–1995), Israeli composer
Mia Arbatova (1911–1990), Israeli ballet dancer
Shlomo Aronson (1936–2020), Israeli historian
Yardena Alotin (1930–1994), Israeli composer and pianist
Avraham Bendori (1928–2019), Israeli footballer
Debbi Besserglick (1955–2005), Israeli actress
Menachem Banitt (1914–2007), Belgian-Israeli scholar
Avraham Biton (1923–2005), Israeli politician
Rafael Bash (1913–2000), Israeli politician
Rozina Cambos (1951–2012), Israeli actress
Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon (1923–2012), Israeli politician
Gamliel Cohen (1922–2002), Israeli intelligence officer
Tzila Dagan (1946-2004), Israeli singer
Sarah Doron (1922–2010), Israeli politician
Shimon Even (1935–2004), Israeli researcher
Nissim Eliad (1919–2014), Israeli politician
Shmuel Gogol (1924–1993), Israeli musician
Kariel Gardosh (1921–2000), Israeli cartoonist
Gila Goldstein (1947–2017), Israeli actress and activist
Ofra Haza (1957–2000), Israeli singer
Isser Harel (1912–2003), Israeli intelligence officer
Uzi Hitman (1952–2004), Israeli singer
Amir Kertes (1964–2018), Israeli singer
Shmuel Katz (1914–2008), Israeli politician and journalist
Shmulik Kraus (1935–2013), Israeli singer-songwriter
Sara Hestrin-Lerner (1918–2017), Israeli physiologist
Amos Lavi (1953–2010), Israeli actor
Arik Lavie (1927–2004), Israeli singer and actor
Sara Levi-Tanai (1910–2005), Israeli choreographer
Esther Lurie (1913–1998), Israeli painter
Mordechai Mishani (1945–2013), Israeli politician
Yigal Mossinson (1917–1994), Israeli playwright
Dov Milman (1919–2007), Israeli politician
George Ovadiah (1925–1996), Israeli film director
Yigal Cohen-Orgad (1937–2019), Israeli politician
Edward Olearczyk (1915–1994), Polish-Israeli composer
Avner Shaki (1926–2005), Israeli politician
Shin Shifra (1931–2012), Israeli poet
Reuven Shefer (1925–2011), Israeli actor
Gideon Singer (1926–2015), Israeli actor and singer
Mordecai Seter (1916–1994), Israeli composer
Pnina Salzman (1922–2006), Israeli pianist
Yehuda Sha'ari (1920–1997), Israeli politician
Dudu Topaz (1946–2009), Israeli television presenter
Meir Vilner (1918–2003), Israeli politician
Mordechai Virshubski (1930–2012), Israeli politician
Yehoshua Zettler (1917–2009), Israeli Lehi commander
Yigal Shilon (1946–2024), Israeli television producer, screenwriter, director, and host