Czech Republic - Agreement Reached on Jewish Cemetery

Czech Republic - An Israeli firm building a parking lot over a Jewish cemetery in the Czech Republic agreed to raise the structure to protect the graves.  

Plaza Centers, which is to build a shopping center and parking lot on the Pilsen site, made the agreement.  
Last month, archaeologists discovered several graves on the land, which a local researcher said housed a 15th century Jewish cemetery, they estimate that as many as 50 graves may be located there.  

Plaza Centers has had several consultations with the Czech Chief Rabbi Karel Sidon and the London-based Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe, which resulted in a verbal agreement to place the parking lot on cement stilts.