The Memorial Gardens first opened their gates in 1954, when the remains of Baron Edmond de Rothschild and his wife Adelaide were brought to Israel for re-interment in a state funeral on the grounds of Ramat Hanadiv.
It was the Baron’s son, James Rothschild, who fulfilled his father’s wish to be buried on this site. In 1936, a tender for planning the gardens was issued, and the job was awarded to the architect Otto (Uriel) Schiller and his colleague Shlomo Weinberg-Oren, a landscape architect. Construction of the gardens was carried out from 1951-54.
Today, some 60 years after the site was formally opened, a documentation project has been launched in order to preserve the Memorial Gardens’ past, to learn from it, and to enable us to continue its legacy. A collaboration between Ramat Hanadiv and Dr. Ada V. Segre, a specialist on the conservation of historic gardens, the project aims to establish a computerized data base of photographs, flyers, articles,
