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Article: The last will and testament of Theodor Herzl.(Israel)
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- September 1, 2003
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Theodor Herzl (1) was laid to rest in the family's burial plot, beside his father, Yaacov Herzl, in Vienna's Doebling Cemetery on July 7, 1904. Zionist leaders immediately began to examine the possibility of re-interring his remains in the Land of Israel, in accordance with his Will. However, although the issue was discussed for years at meetings of the Zionist Executive Committee and at Zionist Congresses, prevailing circumstances in Palestine and Europe prevented the execution of this directive. (2) It was finally made possible only after Herzl's vision of the Jewish state was realized.
On November 24, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel established a ...