
On Yom Hazikaron, many people visit military cemeteries, with the official State ceremony taking place at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Soldiers place Israeli flags with a black ribbon on every grave so that no one is forgotten.
A modern Hebrew term for cemetary is beit almin (בֵּית עָלְמִין). It derives its root from the Aramaic term for cemetary, beit olamim (בֵּית עוֹלָמִים).
This phrase with the root ע-ל-מ, shares those root letters with some other words, including olam (עוֹלָם, “world”), elem/alma (עֶלֶם/עַלְמָה, “a young man/woman”), l'hei'aleim (לְהֵיעָלֵם, “to disappear”) and l'hitaleim (לְהִתְעַלֵם, “to ignore”).
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