The sign is in the Garden of Leadership and Leaders garden (or the state leaders’ park, or the leaders’ garden)
Click for sign's details The second sign was photographed on the same day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image Herzl’s visit to Rishon Lezion mentioned on a plaque is commemorated on a separate plaque near the People’s House in Rishon Lezion
Click for sign's details Another sign in the same format in the same garden: David Ben-Gurion
Click for sign's details Translation of the text on the sign:
Dr. Binyamin Zeev Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)
In Basel I founded the Jewish state. If I had said this in public today, the answer would have provoked laughter from all sides. Maybe in five years at the most, in fifty years they will know everything about her
Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl. diary
1897
[Herzl’s signature]
[The picture of Herzl on the balcony of the hotel in Basel, when in the small picture he is seen looking at the Tower of David]
[and a continuation sign]
Jurist, writer, journalist and statesman. The creator of political Zionism. The visionary of the Jewish state. Founder and Chairman of the Zionist Organization (1897)
In 1896 in Paris he published his book "Der Judenstaat" ("The State of the Jews") in which he proposed a solution to the Jewish problem by establishing a Jewish state.
He convened six Zionist congresses between the years 1897-1901. In 1902 he published his second book "Altneuland" a utopia about the Jewish state in the Land of Israel.
Bargained with the British government for the settlement of Jews in Cyprus and the Sinai Peninsula, following the Chisinau riots. brought up the "Uganda Plan" at the Sixth Congress and encountered fierce opposition.
Herzl died on the 20th of Tammuz 1904 and was buried in Vienna. In 1949, after the establishment of the State of Israel, his bones were brought to Israel and he was buried on Mount Herzl.
Herzl in Rishon Lezion Herzl arrived in Israel on October 26, 1898, the 10th of Sheshvan 1899, in order to meet the German Emperor Wilhelm II who was visiting Israel. Herzl hoped that the Emperor had convinced his ally, the Ottoman Sultan, to give or sell the Land of Israel to the Jews. On his first day in Israel Herzl arrived to Rishon LeZion where he was received with great excitement and respect.
[The text also appears in English and Russian, but it is difficult to recognize]