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tomb of Shimon bar Yochai

Merom HaGalil Regional Council, Israel

The tomb of Shimon bar Yochai, or Kever Rashbi, on Mount Meron is the traditional burial place of the 2nd-century Mishnaic rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. A place of pilgrimage since the late 15th century, it is today the second-most-visited Jewish site in the world after the Western Wall with as many as two million annual visitors. The tomb building was built in the mid-19th century by Shmuel Abu, the French consular agent in Safed.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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