National Botanic Garden of Israel facts for kids
National Botanic Garden of Israel (official name: The Botanical Garden for the Native Plants of Israel in memory of Montague Lamport, in Hebrew: הגן הבוטני לצמחי ארץ ישראל ע"ש מונטג'יו למפורט) is a botanic garden located in Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. The garden is dedicated to the plants of Israel.
The botanic garden was opened in 1931 by Otto Warburg and Alexander Eig. They were the founders of the botanic department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After Mount Scopus was isolated from Israel in 1948, they decided to create a new botanical garden in West Jerusalem, in Givat Ram. The new garden, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, was opened in 1954.
The National Botanic Garden of Israel is also an archaeological park. It has many Jewish burial caves from the Second Temple period. In the southern part of the garden there is a famous cave called the Tomb of Nicanor. The cave is also burial place of two Zionist activists: Leon Pinsker and Menachem Ussishkin.
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Cave of Nicanor
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Graves of Leon Pinsker and Menachem Ussishkin
See also
In Spanish: Jardín botánico nacional de Israel para niños
