Mount Herzl

The people buried there tell you what it's worth.

Menachem Begin asks specifically to be buried on the Mount of Olives rather than at Mount Herzl, which is where a prime minister would normally go.

He wanted the mount.

Eliezer ben Yehuda, the man who revived Hebrew as a spoken language, is there.

S.Y. Agnon, the Nobel laureate.

Henrietta Zold, who founded Hadassah, Sheldon Adelson, Robert Maxwell, chief rabbis going back to Abraham Isaac Cooke.

Begin choosing the mount over Mount Herzl is the whole argument in one decision.

The National Cemetery is the honor.

And a few weeks ago, the story surfaced again.

Israel exhumed Shimon Leib and his wife Rivka from the Jewish cemetery in Zamun and reburied them on Mount Herzl.

beside the grandson who turned a Balkan rabbi's argument into a modern state.

I think about Zemin in almost every conversation I have with Palestinians about peace.