Facebook Twitter Pinterest Israeli workers at the construction site of underground burial tunnels. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPAThe new subterranean city of the dead is Israel’s most high-profile attempt yet to solve an unusual crisis: a shortage of places to bury to its dead. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A worker uses a cherrypicker to access one of the burial niches. “I remembered I had heard about work done at the Technion university [in Haifa] years ago on the subject of religious approval for underground burial. Very quickly they decided to go ahead with the full project.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest The subterranean cemetery.

Source: The Guardian December 01, 2017 13:07 UTC