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Dozens of world leaders met Friday in Jerusalem, including US President Obama and French Hollande, amid extreme security measures for the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, who died Wednesday aged 93.
Shrouded body of the former president , Shimon Peres , who died onWednesday aged 93, for more than 12 hours Thursday before the Knesset in Jerusalem to allow the Israelis take a last look it.
On Thursday , former US President Bill Clinton gave a last look at the body infront of the Knesset. It
was Tankees flags on Thursday morning in all official buildings in the Jewish state in Israel 's diplomatic missions abroad.
The hundreds of Israelis of all ages to take a last look at the coffin , which wascovered the Israeli flag.
was Tankees flags on Thursday morning in all official buildings in the Jewish state in Israel 's diplomatic missions abroad.
The hundreds of Israelis of all ages to take a last look at the coffin , which wascovered the Israeli flag.
Funeral unprecedented
and announced the US presidential Obama is "Ptnkis the American flag in theWhite House and other official buildings and the US military within the United States and abroad , " out of respect for the memory of Peres.
and announced the US presidential Obama is "Ptnkis the American flag in theWhite House and other official buildings and the US military within the United States and abroad , " out of respect for the memory of Peres.
And it will take over Shimon Peres , who died Wednesday aged 93, in Jerusalem Friday in a funeral attended by dozens of world leaders Friday in Jerusalem amid extreme security measures. And he would be buried in theMount Herzl cemetery where he was buried a number of senior Israeli leaders.
The funeral will be attended by US President Barack Obama and his counterparts Francois Hollande and German Joachim Gazk and Spain 's King Felipe VI and Britain 's Prince Charles, as well as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas , the only Arab leader at this level , which will participate in thefuneral
Egypt has announced the first Arab country to sign a peace agreement with Israel that Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will participate in the funeral.
And will form the funeral of Nobel laureate for peace after the signing of the Oslo accords with the Palestinians, apparently gathering exceptional heads of state and government, ministers, diplomats and other official figures.
And will form the funeral of Nobel laureate for peace after the signing of the Oslo accords with the Palestinians, apparently gathering exceptional heads of state and government, ministers, diplomats and other official figures.
To ensure the security of this crowd that will gather at the national cemetery on Mount Herzl, the Israeli authorities imposed extraordinary security measures on this occasion, which comes days after the Jewish New Year holiday, which followed after ten festival days before Yom Kippur.
Israel has not seen any similar funeral on an international level since the funeral of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995 at the hands of an activist in the far right shows strongly for the Oslo agreement signed between Israel and the PLO.
Israeli police and talk about the process of an unprecedented mobilization of her eight thousand police, while the Internal Security Agency in charge of the protection of the characters he published hundreds of elements.
Nobel peace and the Qana massacre
Perez was in the middle of the major battles in the history of Israel, and in theheart of fierce debates accompanied the political life in this country. Israelis and is considered a compromise figure and one of the Elders of the country, but thePalestinian and Arab street collectively believes that is no different from the other leaders of Israel and he describes as "criminal."
Perez was in the middle of the major battles in the history of Israel, and in theheart of fierce debates accompanied the political life in this country. Israelis and is considered a compromise figure and one of the Elders of the country, but thePalestinian and Arab street collectively believes that is no different from the other leaders of Israel and he describes as "criminal."
In 1994, Peres won with Rabin and Arafat , a Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to bring peace to the Middle East."
Linked Peres name beginning of settlement in the occupied West Bank and bombed a United Nations refugee camp in the town of Qana in southern Lebanon in 1996 in a massacre of more than a hundred civilians .
Linked Peres name beginning of settlement in the occupied West Bank and bombed a United Nations refugee camp in the town of Qana in southern Lebanon in 1996 in a massacre of more than a hundred civilians .
Perez was classified between "hawks" Labour Party, agreed when he was defense minister in the seventies the first Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank construction.
However , it moved beyond the ranks of the "doves" and played a crucial role in the conclusion of the Oslo Accords, at a time when Isaac Rabin questioned heavily in the peace process.
However , it moved beyond the ranks of the "doves" and played a crucial role in the conclusion of the Oslo Accords, at a time when Isaac Rabin questioned heavily in the peace process.
Arab MKs in the Knesset will not participate in the funeral
and announced that the deputy in the Israeli Knesset Aida Touma Thursday that Arab MKs from the Arab common list will not participate in the farewell ceremony and the funeral Peres.
and announced that the deputy in the Israeli Knesset Aida Touma Thursday that Arab MKs from the Arab common list will not participate in the farewell ceremony and the funeral Peres.
She said that Peres "in the end talked about peace, the owner of the Oslo project and signed it, but he is also the patron of Jewish settlement in the occupied territories, and the idea of the Dimona reactor and nuclear armament, and committed the Qana massacre in 1996 in southern Lebanon."
For its part, Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip , Abbas to refrain from participating in the funeral Peres called for , arguing that it would be a "step will provide cover to the other parties for political trot and encouraged her to normalization with the occupation".
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