Wikipedia's first sentence called it “high hill-top in jerusalem”. Today it says “site of israel 's national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Mount Herzl , in Hebrew Har Hertzel , is a high hill-top in Jerusalem , Israel that is named for, and is the final resting place of, Theodor Herzl , considered to be the founder of modern political Zionism .1 Herzl's tomb lies at the top of the hill. It is also the burial place of three of Israel's prime ministers: Levi Eshkol who lead Israel during its Six Day War victory in 1967, Israel's only woman prime minister Golda Meir Israel's only assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin . Other prominent leaders such as Zeev Jabotinsky and Israel's deceased presidents are also buried at this place. Israel's main military cemetery is located in the area around Mount Herzl. The coffins of my father, my sister Pauline, and of my close relatives who will have died until then will also be transferred there." Herzl died a year later and was interred in Vienna . Forty-five years later, in 1949 , Herzl's remains and those of his relatives were brought to Israel and reinterred in a burial site in Jerusalem, whose location had been determined by a special state commission. Sixty-three entries were submitted in the competition for the design of the national pantheon . Joseph Klarwein 's proposal was chosen, and the site was accordingly laid out in 1951 . From then on, Mount Herzl has served as the national cemetery , where Zionist leaders, the presidents of Israel, prime ministers, and Speakers of the Knesset are laid to rest. On the northern slope of Mount Herzl is the military cemetery of Jerusalem, and to the west is Yad Vashem , which commemorates the Holocaust . These three sites together comprise Har Hazikaron (the Mount of Memory)... To the east rises the Mount of Olives , where Jews have been buried for the past three thousand years. Between these two poles, two other peaks mark the Jerusalem skyline: Mount Moriah , the religious focal point of the city, where the Temple stood; and Givat Ram , Israel's center of government...The tour of Mount Herzl is a visit to a cemetery and a memorial site." [1]2
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Entrance to Mount Herzl cemetery Mount Herzl , ( ), also Har HaZikaron , הר הזכרון (lit."Mount of Memory"), is a hilltop and national cemetery in Jerusalem , Israel , named for Theodor Herzl , the founder of modern political Zionism . Herzl's tomb lies at the top of the hill. Yad Vashem , which commemorates the Holocaust , lies to the west of Mt.Israel's war dead are also buried there.
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" Mount of Remembrance "), is the site of Israel 's national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities, found on the west side of Jerusalem beside Jerusalem Forest . It is named for Theodor Herzl , the founder of modern political Zionism . Herzl's tomb lies at the top of the hill. Yad Vashem , which commemorates the Holocaust , lies to the west of Mt. Israel's war dead are also buried there. Mount Herzl is 834 meters above sea level .Every plot section in Mount Herzl has a broad plaza for memorial services.Most state memorial ceremonies for those killed at war are conducted in the National Military and Police cemetery.
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" Mount of Remembrance "), is the site of Israel 's national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities, found on the west side of Jerusalem beside the Jerusalem Forest . It is named after Theodor Herzl , the founder of modern Zionism . Herzl's tomb lies at the top of the hill. Yad Vashem , which commemorates the Holocaust , lies to the west of Mt. Israel's war dead are also buried there. Mount Herzl is 834 meters above sea level .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
" Mount of Remembrance "), is the site of Israel 's national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities, found on the west side of Jerusalem beside the Jerusalem Forest . It is named after Theodor Herzl , the founder of modern Zionism . Herzl's tomb lies at the top of the hill. Yad Vashem , which commemorates the Holocaust , lies to the west of Mt. Israel's war dead are also buried there. Mount Herzl is 834 meters above sea level .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
" Mount of Remembrance "), is the site of Israel 's national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities, found on the west side of Jerusalem beside the Jerusalem Forest . It is named after Theodor Herzl , the founder of modern Zionism . Herzl's tomb lies at the top of the hill. Yad Vashem , which commemorates the Holocaust , lies to the west of Mt. Israel's war dead are also buried there. Mount Herzl is 834 meters above sea level .
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high hill-top in jerusalem
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site of israel 's national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities
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