in 1934, the remains of leon pinsker from odessa were reburied in the nicanor cave at the initiative of menachem ussishkin, who envisaged a national pantheon on mt. scopus. however, the only other person buried there was ussishkin himself, who died in 1941. a national leaders plot was established on mount herzl after the founding of the state in 1948, in part because mount scopus became an enclave in jordanian-ruled territory.