Slain MK Rehavam Ze'evi's library donated to J'lem charity

The family of Rehavam Ze'evi, whose assassination five years ago was marked on Sunday, is to donate his large library to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation in Jerusalem. The library of tens of thousands of books, some of them rare, about Israel and Jerusalem will become part of a large information center the foundation has been working on for years.

The rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz, on Sunday confirmed to Haaretz the family's gift. The foundation will put much of the material on computer to make it accessible to the public.

During Sunday's memorial service for Ze'evi, held at Mount Herzl, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke of Ze'evi's murderers and said their crime "would not be blotted out, their evil will not be atoned for" and their "punishment will be to the fullest." Olmert called Ze'evi "a man of absolute truths, of burning, uncompromising Zionist belief in the sole right of the people of Israel to the Land of Israel."

Ze'evi's son Palmach said at the ceremony: "Where is the uncompromising love for the Land of Israel that we owe it, that so characterized you?"