Terror victims arrive at the forensic center in the Shura military base near Ramle, where identification of the deceased and the work of Israel’s Jewish burial societies begins. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90
The Painful, Painstaking Work of Israel’s Burial Societies
Menachem Levy says he is “used to death.” A member of Tel Aviv’s chevra kadisha (“sacred society”), he is among a relatively small number of experts in Israel responsible for preparing tens of thousands of bodies each year for Jewish burial. Yet, he says, nothing he has ever seen prepared him for the jarring scenes he encountered in Israel’s south.
