Restoration work begins on main Damascus Jewish cemetery

DAMASCUS: An organization has begun restoring Damascus’s main Jewish cemetery, the group’s founder told AFP on Tuesday, as members of Syria’s dwindling community seek to revive their heritage after ex-ruler Bashar Assad’s ouster. At the cemetery located along the airport road near the capital, an AFP correspondent saw rows of stone graves bearing inscriptions in Hebrew, as workers inspected the site. Syrian-American Joe Jajati, founder of the Syrian Mosaic Foundation that is overseeing the restoration, said the cemetery contains hundreds of tombs.

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