Mount Herzl: Israel’s national cemetery

Jerusalem (dpa) – Mount Herzl, also known as Har ha-Zikaron, is the site of Israel’s national cemetery in Jerusalem. The site is named after the Austro-Hungarian founder of modern Zionism, the writer Theodor Herzl (1860 – 1904), born Binyamin Ze’ev Herzl. Herzl’s pamphlet “The Jewish State” (Der Judenstaat) dealt with the foundation of an independent Jewish…