El Al plane Herzl, Douglas DC-4

On August 15, 1949, an Israeli passenger airplane, the Herzl, landed in Austria for the first time. It came to take the mortal remains of the Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl to Israel. Herzl had requested this in his will in the event of the founding of an Israeli state. His remains had been exhumed the previous day and taken to the City Temple. Crowds of people, including many DPs, stood in line to take their leave of Herzl.