In a speech at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl National Cemetery, PM Binyamin Netanyahu took the opportunity to emphasize Israel's great desire for peace.
"I long for the day when Palestinian leaders will tell their people 'we have had enough of the conflict. We the Palestinians recognize the Jewish nation's right to its own state in this country. We will live beside you in peace'."
"As soon as these things are said, a huge opportunity for peace will present itself," Netanyahu said during the ceremony, which was attended by 15 of Herzl's distant relatives, as well as by Jewish and Arab youths.
"The Jewish state is the key to our existence and the key to achieving peace with our neighbors."
