Moshe Sharett Buried in Simplicity Unveil Monument
as Nation, World Zionists Mourn at Grave of JTA

TEL AVIV — (JTA) — Moshe
Sharett, first foreign minister and
second premier of the state of
Israel, chairman of the executive
of the Jewish Agency for Israel
and internationally renowned Zion-
ist leader, was laid to rest last
weekend at the tiny "Old Ceme-
tery" here, close by the Mediter-
ranean Sea.
The funeral procession, led by
Israel's spiritual, political and mili-
tary leaders, world Jewish figures
and high ranking foreign diplomats,
accompanied the beloved Jewish
statesman to his final resting place
from Jerusalem, where he had died
July 9 at age 70.
As his bier was lowered in to the
ground, Mr. Sharett's two sons,
Yaacov and Chaim, chanted the
kaddish. Premier Levi Eshkol and
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of
the World Zionist Organization,
threw the first spadesful of earth
into the open grave.
The simplicity of the funeral
ceremony was in accordance with
Moshe Sharett's wishes that no
eulogies be voiced or undue pomp
shown on the occasion of his death.
The deep emotion felt by the shou-
sands who lined the funeral proces-
sion route was articulated at the
cemetery by David Hacohen, lead-
ing member of parliament and life-
long friend of Sharett, who, with
tears in his eyes, watched the cof-
fin being lowered and cried out:
"Shalom, Moshe, Shalom."
Sharett's grave lies between the
tombs of two old friends and com-
rades in the struggle to found the
Jewish state, Dov Hoz and Eliahu
Golomb. Mr. Sharett had requested
that he be laid to rest there in a
will he signed in 1962.
The funeral cortege accompany-
ing the simpl e, open, black-
shrouded, army car, bearing Mr.
Sharett's coffin draped with the
blue-white Israel flag and a talith,
included veterans of the Raga-
nah, the Jewish Brigade, young
soldiers, kibbutz members, stu-
dents and members of the na-
tion's many ethnic communities,
attesting to the position of esteem

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the fallen leader had held in his
countrymen's hearts.
The cortege entered Tel Aviv
and proceeded along Herzl Street
to Beit Eliahu Golomb on Roths-
child Blvd. There Dr. Baruch Ben
Yehuda, prominent Israeli educa-
tor and principal of the famous
Herzliya Secondary School from
which Sharett had graduated with
the first class in 1912, read an ex-
cerpt from one of Sharett's speech-
es.
Mr. Sharett's niece Hilda, an act-
ress and daughter of Sharett's
brother Yehuda, recited a poem by
Yehuda Halevi. The cortege then
moved down Allenby Rd. and stop-
ped at the Great Synagogue of Tel
Aviv where the army chief chap-
lain, Major General-Rabbi Shlomo
Goren, offered prayers. Following
this the procession arrived at the
cemetery.
Before proceeding to Tel Aviv,
the cortege had assembled for a
brief outdoor ceremony at the
Jewish Agency Building in Jeru-
salem. President Zalman Shazar
read the first Psalm instead of de-
livering the customary eulogy. The
procession then stopped briefly in
front of the Knesset, where Speak-
er Kaddish Luz read two famous
speeches by Mr. Sharett.
One was his address to the
troops of the Jewish Brigade to
whom he presented their official
flag as they mustered in a camp
in Italy prior to joining the Allies
in the fight against the Nazis;
the other was the speech Sharett
made before the General Assem-
bly of the United Nations in
1949, when Israel was admitted
to full membership in the world
organization.
Immediately following the an-
nouncement of Sharett's death,
flags throughout Israel were order-
ed flown at half-mast and memorial
meetings were convened with the
participation of all of the nation's
leaders. The Knesset immediately
adjourned after a brief session in
memory of the fallen leader.
Messages of condolence poured
in from statesmen, Jewish leaders
and colleagues in all parts of the
globe.
All major Jewish. organizations
expressed grief over the passing
of Sharett, emphasizing his lifetime
of service to world Jewry.
Leading newspapers in major
cities throughout the world carried
articles paying high tribute to Shan
ett, with many papers devoting long
columns to his historic activities
prior to and after the establish-
ment of Israel.
In Washington, Senator Jacob
K. Javits, New York Republican,
memorialized Sharett in an ad-
dress before the United States
Senate. Israeli embassies in many
world capitals held memorial

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services as did the various offices
of the Jewish Agency.
Vice President Hubert H. Hum-
phrey issued a statement memo-
rializing Mr. Sharett:
"Israel has lost a great leader
and the free world a great and
respected statesman. Prime Minis-
ter Moshe Sharett was more than
a builder of a nation which is
new and yet ancient, an architect
of its independence, and a scholar
in the heritage of his people. He
was a towering, universal figure
—of peace, of good will, and of
cooperation. The world will miss
his courage, his wisdom, and his
idealism. I extend my condolences
to Mrs. Sharett, her children, sym-
pathy to Israel, the nation he
served so long and so well."
In New York, memorial services
were held in the auditorium of the
Jewish Agency.
Representatives of leading Amer-
ican Jewish organizations and
Israeli representatives in the
United States were among those
present. Michael Arnan, Israel con-
sul general in New York, repre-
sented the government of Israel.
Memorial services were also
held in Los Angeles at the Israel
consulate-general, a t t ended by
many leaders of the local Jewish
community. Israel Ambassador Av-
raham Harman, who happened to
be in that city, recited the kaddish.
Chairman of the memorial tri-
bute was Dr. Emanuel Neumann,
chairman of the Jewish Agency-
American Section. Others who
spoke were Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz,
vice president of the Israel Bond
Organization, and Pinchas Cruso,
honorary president of the Labor
Zionist Organization of America,
who represented the Labor Zion-
ist movement. Rabbi Mordecai
Kirshblum, a member of the exe-
cutive of the Jewish Agency, read
Psalm 90, "A Prayer for Moses
(Moshe)." Cantor David Kousse-
Israel," eulogized Mr. Sharett "as
dead, El Maleh Rachamim.
Dr. Neumann, calling the death
of Mr. Sharett shattering blow
and heavy loss to the Jewish paeple,
to world Zionism and the State of
Israel," sulogized Mr. Sharett "as
a pioneer and student, as a scholar
and ideologist, as a diplomat and
statesman who was the finest
flower of modern Israel."

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