# Beth Israel **Not a geographic place — flag for cleanup.** "Beth Israel" (Hebrew *Beit Yisrael*, "House of Israel") is not a town. It is an extremely common name for **synagogues, congregations, and hospitals** — for example Beth Israel Hospital / Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City, Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston, or any number of Congregation Beth Israel synagogues. It has almost certainly been mis-recorded here as a birth or death *place* when the source actually referred to a hospital where a person was born or died, or a congregation associated with them. **Action:** the person profiles pointing here should be corrected — resolve each entry to the real city (e.g. New York, Boston) once the underlying record is checked, then remove the "Beth Israel" place value. No coordinates apply; this file is a placeholder to surface the affected profiles via the query below. <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Type</td><td>Institution name (synagogue / hospital) mis-recorded as a place</td></tr> <tr><td>Status</td><td>Needs cleanup — reassign affected profiles to their real city</td></tr> </table> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Chaya Sarah (b.1825)]] | Died 12/14/1883 | | [[Shlomo Zalman Horowitz (Taker) (b.1825)]] | Died 11/08/1892 | | [[Devorah Chaya Veksler (b.1894)]] | Born ~1894 | | [[Freide Sarah Veksler (b.1897)]] | Born ~1897 | | [[Shimshon Aryeh Iserov (b.1864)]] | Died 02/03/1914 | | [[Yaakov Shlomo Zalman Veksler (b.1900)]] | Died 01/27/1918 |