Why then change the name of Herzl Street to Kore HaDorot? After Israel’s independence in 1948, outlying Jerusalem neighborhoods – including Talpiot, Beit HaKerem, and Bayit VeGan – were subsumed into the Jerusalem municipality. Jerusalem’s first mayor, Daniel Oster, led an attempt to rename Jaffa Street as Herzl Street. The change lasted for only a year, and locals voiced their disapproval by simply continuing to call the road Jaffa Street! The city council followed suit, and gave Herzl’s name instead to the main road connecting the entrance of the city to Herzl’s final resting place. It was at this point that Herzl Street in Talpiot required a new name, and became Kore HaDorot as it is known until today. This new name was adopted from the title of an iconic book by Rabbi David Conforte, a Salonicain Jew, and a dissident of the expelled Spanish Jewry. The chronicle is an account of eleven generations of Spanish rabbinical activity, before, during, and after the Spanish Jewish expulsion. Rabbi Conforte himself lived in Jerusalem during the years 1648-1646. The name of the road is unique in a neighborhood where many of its roads are named after Israeli landmarks, such as Ein Gedi, Yam HaMelach, and Beit HaAravah.