Minister Tzachi Hanegbi has eulogized his mother, Geulah Cohen, during her funeral on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, saying , "Mother is returning today to the earth of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem where she was born. The Jerusalem that her father dreamed about. The Jerusalem she fought over to expel foreign rule from the homeland. The Jerusalem she loved and where she lived most of her life with a break in a caravan in Hevron and for whom she enacted the Basic Law of Jerusalem the capital of Israel."
Hanegbi continued, "My mother enacted the summit of her achievements in the Knesset: the Basic Law of Jerusalem - the Capital of Israel, and Jerusalem was anchored, not only in hearts and prayers, but also in law. The sovereignty of the land, the completeness of the land, the gathering of the exiles to the land - were at her forefront."