Balti is a city in Moldova where Jews have settled since the 70s of the 18th century. On the eve of World War II, they made up 60% of the local population. By the 1970s, the number of Jews had decreased to 12%, and after the mass emigration of the late 1980s and early 1990s, it became even smaller.

According to local historians, there was an old Jewish cemetery in Balti. After the expansion of the city, it turned out to be in the center and in Soviet times, its territory fell under construction. The exact location of the cemetery has not been preserved. Local historians call the area of ​​the shopping center called "Elite 2" as a reference point.

The new Jewish cemetery in Balti was founded in the second half of the 19th century. Then a wealthy member of the community, Hananiy Halperin, acquired a piece of land in an area called Neudobie because of the regular landslides. The Jews of Balti had the expression "Go to Hanania", used as a curse.

The cemetery suffered from vandalism in 1941, and then several times in the 2010s. Its territory in various sources is estimated from 8 to 12 hectares, and the number of graves is 25 thousand. There is a crypt of the tzadik Rabbi Israel Yoffe.

The grave inventory was carried out in the late 1980s. Then lists of graves and a map-scheme of the cemetery were compiled. In the 2010s, Israeli enthusiasts led by Roman Rokhlis digitized inventory information.

A fence, destroyed in several places, with lockable gates, surrounds the cemetery. The cemetery is conventionally divided into old and new parts. On the old site, where the burials of the second half of the 19th century are located, the gravestones made of limestone are partially destroyed and moved from their original places.

In the summer of 2011, a fire broke out at the Beletsky cemetery. The graves suffered from burning dead wood.

In 2009, Israeli citizen Arkadiy Verzub returned, visited Balti and found that the Jewish cemetery was in a terrible state. He organized a fundraiser. In 2011 and 2012, he came to supervise the work on the improvement of the cemetery. In addition to the adjacent territory, the crypt of Rabbi Yoffe was cleaned up. A new memorial plaque was installed on it. In 2015, vandals destroyed it.

In 2015, Arkadiy Verzub came to organize the improvement work, but due to problems with finding contractors, he left the funds collected for the improvement of the cemetery with the local community.

There are graves with crosses at the edge of the cemetery. Residents of the areas adjacent to the cemetery used the territory for burials of relatives.