Judge Morris Rothenberg, acting national chairmen of the United Palestine Appeal, announced today plans for a Herzl memorial to be built in Jerusalem with the aid of American funds. It will include a mausoleum, a public park of about 30 acres planted with “Herzl Cedars” and special roads for thousands of visitors expected from all over the world. A competition for the most suitable plans for the mausoleum will be announced shortly.
Speaking before a joint board of directors meeting of the U.P.A. and its constituent agencies, the Palestine Foundation Fund and the Jewish National Fund, Judge Rothenberg declared: “Thocdor Herzl, father of the Jewish state, has been rescued from a restless grave surrounded by hatred and horror and has been brought home and laid to his eternal slumber in the place where he belongs by the side of his people’s sages, seers and prophets.”
The hill, on top of which Herzl is buried, covers an area of 125 acres of land provided by the J.N.F. and rises some 2,800 fest above sea level, the highest point in Jerusalem. It provides a view of the greater part of the city and the Jewish settlements in the neighborhood, including Arza, where Herzl planted a cedar during his visit to Palestine in 1898.
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