Many famous names are buried in the cemetery such as Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar , known as the '' Ohr ha-Chaim '' , and Rabbi Yehuda Alcalay who were among the heralds of Zionism ; Hasidic rebbes of various dynasties and Rabbis of " Yishuv haYashan " ( the old – pre-Zionist - Jewish settlement ) together with Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook , the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi , and his circle ; Henrietta Szold , the founder of the Hadassah organization ; the poet Else Lasker-Schüler , Eliezer Ben-Yehuda , the father of Modern Hebrew , Shmuel Yosef Agnon , the Nobel Laureate for Literature , and Boris Schatz , the founder of the Bezalel School of Art ; Israel 's sixth Prime Minister Menachem Begin ; the victims of the 1929 Arab riots and 1936 – 39 Arab revolt , the fallen from the 1948 War of Independence , together with Jews of many generations in their diversity
1929 Arab riots
1929 Palestine riots
Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery