On Friday, September 30, 2016 world leaders including Obama, Prince Charles and Hillary and Bill Clinton will pay their last respects to former Israeli President Shimon Peres who died at the age of 93 on Wednesday.
The death of Shimon Perez marks the departure of the last major figure in Israel’s founding generation.
He’ll be buried at noon on Friday at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem at a reserved plot for the country’s founding fathers.
Peres’s funeral will begin on Friday at 8:30 a.m., when his body will be transferred from the Knesset to the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
Eulogies will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the cemetery. At noon, the burial ceremony will be held. The funeral is expected to end at 1:30 p.m.
On Thursday, Peres’s body will lie in state at the Knesset from 8:45 a.m. to 9 p.m. The memorial will open on Thursday morning with Netanyahu, Rivlin, and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein laying wreaths on the coffin.
Peres in his lifetime was a former president, former prime minister, former defense minister, former foreign minister, former minister of eight other ministries, the last surviving member of Israel’s founding fathers, and winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
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