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Kinneret Cemetery (בית הקברות כנרת) is a historic cemetery on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel, near where the Jordan River begins.

The first burial in the cemetery, of Menachem Mendel Shmuelevich (GNI), took place in 1911, several months after the Great Strike. He was one of the eunuchs in the engine house. He died or was murdered when he went out to bring bread from the Sea of ​​Galilee. The decision was to bury him near the Sea of ​​Galilee.

The cemetery served the residents of both moshav Kinneret and Kvutzat Kinneret. Additionally, many leaders of the Histadrut and the Labor movement chose to be buried there.

Famous personalities are buried in the cemetery with first and second aliyah, including Rachel the poet, Berl Katznelson, Shaul Avigur, Avraham Herzfeld and others. In addition, the poet Elisheva Bihovsky is buried, as well as leaders of socialist Zionists who died and were buried in the Diaspora, and their bones were brought to Israel after the establishment of the state, such as Moshe Hess, Dov Bar Borochov and Nachman Sirkin. The cemetery has a special corner for Samuel Yavnali, the Zionist congressman who was involved in bringing Yemenite Kinneret to Palestine in 1909. There are also tombstones of the guard people buried in Kfar Giladi, as well as the grave of Samuel Stoller, one of the Kinneret group and the Israel Prize laureate.

A special plot in the cemetery was assigned to Yemenite Kinneret. With the publication of Professor Yehuda Nini's book "You Had or Dreamed a Dream, Yemenite Kinneret - The Affair of Settlement and Displacement", the refusal of the group and the colony's residents to bury Matti Yemeni Kinneret in the cemetery was revealed, and only after a while was a separate section allocated to them in the cemetery.

Another special section for Tel Aviv exiles who arrived in Kinneret after being deported from Tel Aviv in 1917. 52 people arrived in the Kinneret courtyard and lived there in difficult conditions. Ten died and were buried under an unspecified heap of stones. In the 1950s, Kinneret members placed a tombstone on each of the tombs, which read "Anonymous from the Jews of Judah". The names of the deceased, discovered in the Zionist Archives in 1991, are commemorated in a memorial monument erected in the heart of the cemetery, adjacent to this plot.

Poet and songwriter Naomi Shemer, who was born on Kvutzat Kinneret, is also buried in the cemetery. Some distance away, writer and playwright Aaron Megged is buried.

Notable burials

 * Rachel Bluwstein
 * Naomi Shemer
 * Berl Katznelson
 * Ber Borochov
 * Nachman Syrkin
 * Moses Hess
 * Avraham Herzfeld
 * Elisheva Bikhovski
 * Shmuel Stoller
 * Shmuel Yavnieli/Yavne'eli

Also of note is the art on the tombstone of Natan Ikar,

Yemenite section