The remains of the late Baron Edmond Rothechild and his wife were removed today from their resting place in the Pere La Chaise Cemetery here and were started on the long journey to Israel where they will be reinterred. The reburial is being carried out in fulfillment of the wishes of the Baron, who has been dead 20 years.
Present at the ceremony in the cemetery were members of the famed Rothschilds family, representatives of the French Government and French cultural organizations with which the late Baron was associated including the Legion of Honor, Ambassador Yaacov Tsur of Israel and some 1,500 Parisians including Jewish community leaders.
Eulogies were delivered by Jewish leaders who pointed out that the projects carried out with the Baron’s assistance, including the establishment of wineries at Rishon LeZion proved the feasibility of Jewish settlement in portions of Palestine other than Jerusalem. After Baron Guy de Rothschild, present head of the family, recited the prayer for the dead and services were conducted by Chief Rabbi I. Kaplan, the Israeli national hymn Hatikvah, was sung. Then a guard of honor, consisting of Israeli sailors from the frigate waiting in Marseilles harbor to carry the coffins to Israel, lifted the coffins and began the journey.
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