At this great mament in Jewish History, it is fitting and proper that we rerall with affertion and gratitude, and in houor, the names of those men and women no longer with us through whose druoted and self-sacrificing labors Eretz Israel and the penple of Israel regained mhat had been Inst eighteen hundred and fiftg years ago. It was nat their fate 10 see with their own eyes the realization of the Ideal for which they labored, the end of the dream, and the beginning of the rrality. We, the heirs ne their teaching and their, disriples in seruice, gathered here in Extraordinary Jon- vention pay tribute to the scholars and workmen, merchants and warriors, theologians and economists, who gaue of their life out of Ioue for their people in order that the drram of their people might become real.
At this turning point in our history, we acknowledge with respect and veneration and love the debt we owe them. And more especially here gathered do we pay tribute to those who recently fell on the field of battle as victims and as fighters, whose blood was the last sacrifice of the old era, and which still clings upon the fringe of the great event which we are here to commemorate. Their names live in our hearts, and will be preserved forever in the history of the living Jewish people.
(O£E the roster here presented, howener, there must be selerted with tender rerollertions aud with a feeling that rannnt be adequately expressed, nur tribnte to that heraic, majestic figure who plunged withont reservation and withont thought of self into the turmoil of Iewish life and bringing forth the pure refined Ideal, inrorporated it in life which he re-enforeed until his great heart burst, before euen fragment of the dream had rome true. ;
We hail the spirit of Theodor Herzl, that will never die and never be forgotten.
We mention the leading figures in the great struggle, not forgetting, however, the large army of devoted workers, who gave of their lives in silence, whom we recall with wonder and gratitude.