Editing Mount of Olives (section)

===State of Israel===
Following the 1967 [[Six-Day War]] restoration work was done and the cemetery was reopened for burials. Israel's 1980 [[Jerusalem Law|unilateral annexation]] of East Jerusalem was condemned as a violation of international law and ruled null and void by the UN Security Council in [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 478|UNSC Resolution 478]].

Tombs in the [[Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery]] have been prone to vandalism, among them the tombs of the [[Gerrer Rebbe]] and [[Menachem Begin]].<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=163398 Mount of Olives security beefed up to stop vandalism], Jerusalem Post 17-12-2009</ref><ref>[http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=175637 Has Israel abandoned the Mount of Olives?], Jerusalem Post 15-05-2010</ref><ref>[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3888827,00.html Vandalism returns to Mount of Olives cemetery], Ynet News 12-05-2010</ref><ref name=shameful>[http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=194272 Shameful dereliction at the Mt. of Olives Cemetery], Jerusalem Post 06-11-2010</ref>

On 6 November 2010, an international watch-committee was set up by [[Jewish diaspora|Diaspora Jews]] with the aim of reversing the desecration of the Jewish cemetery. According to one of the founders, the initiative was triggered by witnessing tombstones that were wrecked with "the kind of maliciousness that defies the imagination."<ref name=shameful/>