An Israeli cemetery’s caretaker was arrested for ordering his workers to bury garbage inside graves. The suspect, the acting director of Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem, was remanded by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Sunday after police discovered that hundreds of graves in his care — including some housing bodies — had been filled with garbage.
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