A seven-member committee has been named by the Israeli government to supervise arrangements for bringing the remains of Theodor Herzl from the Vienna cemetery where he is buried to Israel, it was reported here today. It is planned to reinter Herzl’s remains on the same day that the newly-elected Israeli Parliament will open.
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