On the southern outskirts of Zikhron Ya’aqov a road goes off on the right to Ramat Hanadiv (“Hill of the Benefactor”), and it is there that Baron Edmond de Rothschild wished to be buried’

In 1954 his remains and those of his wife Ada were brought from France to Israel in an Israeli warship and given a state burial there.

The entrance to the luxuriant and carefully tended park containing the Rothschild Mausoleum is on the south side, and to the west is a map carved in stone showing all the settlements in Israel founded by Edmond de Rothschild.

In the center of the park, entered through a rectangular courtyard, is his mausoleum, which is impressive in its simple monumentality.