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


L’chaim at a lone soldier's grave - opinion

That glass, raised at a grave, placed life exactly where death was standing.

Sergeant Moshe Yitzhak Hacohen, 22.

Herzog vows Israel will never stop searching for Ron Arad at missing soldiers memorial

Speaking at the ceremony, Herzog quoted Russian-Israeli poet Nathan Alterman’s “The Third,” an emotional poem about a mother whose son’s body was lost.

President Isaac Herzog hosts bereaved families in the President's Residence, Jerusalem, February 15, 2026; illustrative.

WATCH: Final hostage pin removed from National Memorial Hall for Israel's Fallen

The pin was removed in a solemn ceremony organized by the Families, Commemoration and Heritage Division at the Defense Ministry, following the return of Gvili's body to Israel from Gaza.

A HOSTAGE pin on St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili's memorial brick.

Jerusalem commemorates the ‘Egoz’ shipwreck disaster, 65 years later

This is the tragic story of 44 illegal immigrants – men, women, and children – who set out from Morocco to Israel in 1961 and met their deaths at sea.

Memorial to the victims on board the immigrants ship ‘Egoz,’ on Mount Herzl.

IDF Menashe Brigade reservist dies from wounds sustained in Gaza fighting

The IDF said that Master Sergeant (res.) Asael Babad, 38, was severely injured during combat in Rafah on October 19 of last year.

Sergeant-Major (res.) Asael Babad.

‘Thank God, thank the soldiers’: Former hostages move Christian leaders at Nova site

Largest Christian delegation ever to visit Israel opens FOZ Ambassadors Summit at massacre scene and Mount Herzl

Members of Christian delegation visit Nova site and Mount Herzl

Hostage families, fallen soldier relatives, urge national unity at Rabin memorial ceremony

In the shadow of Rabin’s assassination, youth movements gathered to call for healing and national unity in Israel.

Merav Leshem Gonen, mother of freed hostage Romi, addresses the crowd at a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, November 5, 2025.

Whoever threatens Israel will 'pay heavy price,' Netanyahu vows at state ceremony for the fallen

The military will commemorate those who fell during the Israel-Hamas war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Presdent Isaac Herzog at the IDF ceremony for the fallen soldiers of the Israel-Hamas War. October 16, 2025.

1,158 Israeli soldiers and other security personnel fell since start of October 7 massacre

In the past two weeks alone, six more IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers were added to the number of the fallen.

IDF soldiers are seen operating in Gaza City, October 3, 2025

Shorter than a flight to Uman: Take a trip to Mount Herzl instead - opinion

If Rabbi Nachman were alive today, he would recognize the holiness of those who serve, and he would view those buried on Mount Herzl as the holiest of saints, worthy of us all visiting.

SGT.-MAJ. Betzalel Yehoshua Mosbacher is laid to rest at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem in July. He succumbed to wounds sustained in battle in the Gaza Strip. Anyone seeking to pray at the graves of the righteous should begin at Mount Herzl, says the writer.