Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent: Herzl told Zionist Congress he wanted to be buried in Haifa
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Title:Metal caskets is an Halachic issue
Name:Motic
City: LondonState: England
Metal caskets and reburying the dead are both Halachic isues. Did Herzl or the Israeli government consult the Rabbinate? When Rabbi Koppul Rosen was buried in Carmel College with the condition that he would eventually be reburied on Mount Carmel in Haifa there was considerable Rabbinical opposition.