Herzl would have been proud
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New Herzl Museum to be inaugurated
State-of-the-art museum complex features special audio-visual effects, Zionist learning center
JERUSALEM - The new Herzl Museum complex on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl will be inaugurated Thursday.
Among those expected to attend the inauguration ceremony are President Moshe Katsav, World Zionist Congress and Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Sallai Meridor, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, and Chief Justice Aharon Barak.
The new complex includes a state-of-the-art museum with the cutting-edge audio-visual effects, and a Zionist learning center. Among the artifacts on display are the desk on which Theodor Herzl wrote “The Jewish State” which was published in 1896 and documents from the First Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland between August 29th and 31st 1897.
The inauguration of the Museum coincides with the Hebrew date of Theodor Herzl’s birth in Budapest on the 10th of Iyar in 1860, which was designated last year by the State of Israel as the official day for commemorating Theodor Herzl, the visionary of an independent and sovereign Jewish National Home.
The new Herzl Center is a project of the World Zionist Organization and is supported by the Jerusalem Foundation.
