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If you will it, it is no dream: Bones of Herzl's grandparents coming to Israel

Željka Cvijanović, president of the Republika Srpska, agrees to request to raise the bones of the grandfather and grandmother of Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism, and bring them to Israel.

by  Yori Yalon
Published on  11-30-2021 09:20
Last modified: 11-30-2021 11:57
If you will it, it is no dream: Bones of Herzl's grandparents coming to Israel

A portrait of Theodor Herzl in 1898 I Archives

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The president of the Republika Srpska of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed on Monday to help raise the bones of the grandfather and grandmother of Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism, and bring them to Israel.

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Željka Cvijanović, president of the Republika Srpska, visited Mount Herzl earlier this week.

During her visit, she laid a wreath at Herzl's grave, toured the Herzl Museum, received an explanation of his Zionist vision and finally signed a guest book that many visiting heads of state previously signed.

During the visit, Yaakov Hagoel, chairman of the World Zionist Organization, said that Herzl's grandparents, from whom he drew his Zionist inspiration, were buried in her country, and asked the president to help bring their bones to Israel.

After the establishment of the state, Herzl's remains were exhumed from his tomb in Vienna and reburied on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in August 1949, with his parents and sister by his side. Many years later, in September 2006, the bones of his two children were also brought to Israel, and buried next to those of their father. In 2007, the remains of Herzl's only grandson, Stephen Theodore Norman, were raised from a Washington cemetery for burial in Jerusalem. Herzl's paternal grandparents, who inspired his Zionist conception, remained buried in the small cemetery in the town of Zemun, which is on the outskirts of the Serbian capital Belgrade.

Born in 1805, Herzl's grandfather Shimon Loeb Herzl was an ultra-Orthodox Jew who served as a rabbi in various honorary priesthoods in the Zemun community in Serbia. He was enthusiastic about the idea of ​​Zionism, and actively advocated in his community for the idea of ​​establishing a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. The town's spiritual leader, Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai of Zemun, one of the forerunners of Zionism, influenced Herzl's grandfather and guided him to the vision of political Zionism, who then, evidently, passed that on to his grandson.

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