Mount Herzl

Jerusalem razes Elie Wiesel Plaza for NIS 73m. underground passage to Shaare Zedek

SZMC’s director-general Prof. Ofer Merin told In Jerusalem that when construction is completed, he will make sure that the Elie Wiesel Plaza and its garden are restored.

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People visit the graves of Israeli soldiers at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, April 16, 2026, days before Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day).

Victims of terror honored at President's Residence

CHAIRMAN YAAKOV HAGOEL on the World Zionist Organization balcony in Jerusalem, in homage to Theodor Herzl’s iconic pose at the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, in the early 1900s.

Closing the circle: Inside the campaign to bring Theodor Herzl’s grandparents to Mount Herzl

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gal Hirsch, Coordinator for the Hostages and the Missing in the Prime Minister's Office hold a press conferene at the Prime Minister's office in Jerursalem, January 27, 2026.

Gal Hirsch faces backlash over Independence Day torch-lighting amid tax fraud trial


Sgt. Geri Gideon Hanghal killed in Wednesday ramming attack buried on Mt. Herzl

Gideon and his family are part of the Bnei Menashe community, which claims to be part of the ten tribes exiled before the Second Temple's destruction.

 Sgt. Geri Gideon Hanghal was killed in a ramming attack in the West Bank on Wednesday, September 11, 2024.

Israeli politicians continue to divide country, Oct. 7 ceremony controversy showcases - editorial

Ceremonies should unite all Israelis to come together and remember October 7. What is the point if there is a need to prerecord the ceremony and hold it without the public? 

 Pictures of Israelis who were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival placed outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2024

Israel ready anywhere, anytime: President Herzog's speech channelled the Zionist spirit - editorial

At Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s memorial, President Herzog reassured Israelis of military readiness and strong alliances amid rising threats from Iran.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog is flanked by IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at an event for outstanding soldiers at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Independence Day.

Our flag demands more respect - opinion

We Israelis need to remember that regardless of our informality, our losses are no less traumatic, and our flag no less symbolic.

 PEOPLE WALK across Givon Square in Tel Aviv, where Israeli flags are displayed this week. Our flag symbolically represents the sacrifices of our young men and women, says the writer.

Parade to mark Day of Liberation and Rescue of Jews by Allies takes place in Jerusalem

The holiday, which this year fell on June 3, commemorates the victims of the Holocaust and the allied rescue of the Jewish survivors from occupied Europe.

 Major General Uzi Dayan and Major Michael Lubovicov lead the victory parade on Mount Herzl.

From dream to reality: The history of Mount Herzl as Israel's National Cemetery

From the beginning, the goal of the National Cemetery was to be "the largest and most magnificent in the country."

Bereaved Israelis seen at the Mount Herzl military cemetery, in Jerusalem, May 12, 2024

New app by Israel's Defense Ministry helps to navigate the graves of Israel's fallen forces

The application, "Memory Paths," allows individuals to navigate to graves in military cemeteries, giving users information about the fallen buried there.

 Israeli flags on graves of fallen soldiers in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 9, 2024, ahead of Israeli Memorial Day.

Grapevine: Re’ut remembers

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 IDF soldiers place flags at graves on Mount Herzl ahead of Memorial Day, May, 2022

‘She was light itself’: Family, friends, unit mourn Rose Lubin

Lubin was murdered in a stabbing attack carried out by a resident of east Jerusalem near Herod's Gate of the Old City in Jerusalem.

 People gather for the funeral of Israeli-American Border Police officer Sgt. Rose Ida (Elisheva) Lubin.

Herzog: Those who fuel bitter Israeli division endanger the state

“Especially now, we must learn the lessons and truly understand that the internal threat within Israel is the most acute and dangerous threat of all," said President Isaac Herzog.

 President Isaac Herzog speaks at the memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War on September 26, 2023.