{{Short description|Jewish cemetery in Karachi, Pakistan}} {{Use Pakistani English|date=February 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox cemetery | name = Bani Israel Graveyard | native_name = بنی اسرائیل کا قبرستان | native_name_lang = ur | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pushpin map = | map_type = | map_size = | map_caption = | mapframe = | established = | abandoned = <!-- or | closed = --> | location = Taj-ul-Awliyah Rd, Golimar, Karachi | country = Pakistan | coordinates = {{coord|24.8842|67.0139|display=inline}} | type = | style = | owner = | size = | graves = 5,000 | interments = | cremations = | leases = | website = | findagraveid = | politicalgeo = | footnotes = | nrhp = | embedded = }} The '''Bani Israel Graveyard'''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/245618|title=Karachi: Bene Israel graveyard: buried in time or conscience?|date=2007-05-06|work=Dawn |language=en|access-date=2019-09-22}}</ref> is the only Jewish cemetery in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. This cemetery is a part of the larger Mewa Shah Graveyard. Over the years, the area has been reduced. The graveyard currently holds about 5,000 graves.<ref name="blog">{{cite web |url=https://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2011/03/karachis-jewish-cemetery-in-desperate.html |title=Karachi's Jewish cemetery in dire need of repair |author=bataween |website=jewishrefugees.org.uk |date=13 March 2011 |access-date=22 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=In search of the Jews of Karachi |first=Huma |last=Imtiaz |work=The Express Tribune |date=3 February 2011 |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/113103/in-search-of-the-jews-of-karachi/ |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref>
In his book ''Karachi Tareekh Ke Aaeene Mein'' (''Karachi in the Mirror of History''), Muhammad Usman Damohi writes that the Jews only had one cemetery in Karachi, located south-east of the Haji Camp area. It was called the Bani Israel Cemetery. In her book ''Malika-e-Mashriq'' (''Queen of the East''), Mehmooda Rizwiya writes that the Old Jewish Cemetery is adjacent to Usmanabad and is in the south-east of the Haji Camp.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Balouch|first1=Akhtar|title=Karachi's 'Yahoodi Masjid'|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1046956|access-date=26 December 2016|work=Dawn|date=Sep 16, 2015}}</ref>
==Notable burials== * Solomon David, an official of the Karachi Municipal Corporation<ref name="blog"/> and according to some the builder of the Magain Shalome Synagogue
==See also== * List of cemeteries in Karachi
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.rootsweb.com/~pakwgw/british_cemeteries_sindh.html#khijew Cemeteries in Karachi during British Raj]
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