Garden of the Missing in Action

Garden of the Missing in Action

גן הנעדרים
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Coordinates
Location	Mount Herzl, Jerusalem
Completion date	2004
Dedicated to	the Missing in action that burial place is unknown

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Empty Grave markers in the Garden of the Missing Soldiers

The Garden of the Missing in Action (Garden of the Missings Hebrew: גן הנעדרים‎, Gan HaNe'edarim) is an unknown soldier memorial and commemorative garden on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem dedicated to Israeli MIAs.

The garden memorializes fighters and officers of the Israel Defense Forces and pre-state MIAs from 1914 until today whose resting place is unknown. The garden was inaugurated in February 2004 in a ceremony attended by army chiefs, the Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, and members of the Jerusalem Municipality. The garden also contains memorials to those lost aboard the submarine INS Dakar and the 23 Who Went Down at Sea. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, over 400 Israeli soldiers have been declared "Missing in Action." The construction of the Garden of the Missing on Mt. Herzl was initiated and headed by Moshe Oren, as head of the Ministry of Defense Commemoration Division.

An annual memorial service for the Missing Soldiers of Israel takes place in the garden's main plaza on Seventh of Adar day.

External links

• Official web site (in Hebrew)
• Stamp commemorating the opening of the Garden of the Missing Soldiers by the Israel Postal Company
• Israeli Soldiers "Missing in Action"

• Mount Herzl: The Creation of Israel's National Cemetery Mount Herzl