Reply To: Ym”s?

Was told by a gentle old Jew a”h that he himself asked in the ’50s, whether ’twas proper to say Yemach Shmo on Herzl (or was it Ben Gurion) and he was told Yes! albeit it ill advised to say publicly
The ‘gentle’ old Jew was an old fragile Novardiker who told this to us at a Shabbos table in Yerushalayim. He personally asked the Chazon Ish