Delegations from more than 70 countries participated in the farewell ceremony for Peres

State farewell ceremony with former Israeli President Shimon Peres began on the last working day of the week on the home national cemetery in Jerusalem, with the participation of the leaders of the Jewish state and delegations from more than seven dozen countries, including the Russian Federation.
The singing of prayers by military rabbis closed the coffin, draped in the blue and white banner of the national flag, was made on the Jerusalem mount Herzl-final resting place of Directors of the Jewish country and the leaders of the Zionist movement since its founder, Theodor Herzl, after whom is named the memorial complex, RIA " Novosti ".
specifically, the burial is preceded by a Public ceremony of farewell to the speeches of politicians and family members of the deceased. Speeches of the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein, three children Perez, current President Barack Hussein Obama and former President Clinton, who had been with the late years of friendship and mutual work on the middle East settlement. The tribune will be also provided by the Israeli writer Amos RAM and singer David Douro, who will perform a song written on the basis of Jewish prayer. The Russian Federation represented by the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. She yesterday evening arrived in Jerusalem on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The composition of the Russian delegation, according to information the receiving party also included the special envoy of the Russian leader on the Middle East and Africa, Deputy foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. According to the lists distributed first, among the participants of the farewell ? the presidents of France and Germany, Ukraine and Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, Greece and Mexico, Switzerland and Austria, the king of Spain, the Prince of Wales and Duke of Luxembourg, head of the European Council, Prime Ministers of Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, the Secretary General of UNESCO, most other current and former government officials. For the funeral arrived, the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas ' ? a long-standing partner of Perez for the middle East peace process. Mourning events started in Jerusalem yesterday with the popular farewell to Peres. The results of examination of the authorities, the day about 40 thousand Israelis came to the Parliament building, which was erected coffin. The influx of people was such that the organizers have prolonged the ceremony for two hours. The former head of Israel, Nobel peace prize laureate Shimon Peres has died in the night of Wednesday, never recovered from a stroke He suffered two weeks ago. Burial will be held on the last working day of the week in the morning. According to doctor p?rez, ex-President of Israel died without suffering, and after death became a donor. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to Israel in connection with the death of Shimon Peres, noting his achievements on the settlement in the middle East. Shimon Peres was 93. He was the most famous living Israeli politicians, and over the past five decades were in the foreground of the political life of Israel. Perez, who was born within the modern Belarus is called the last of the founding fathers of Israel, to revive the Jewish state two thousand years of oblivion, the Creator of its military-industrial complex and deeply secretive nuclear weapons programme, the architect of middle East peace process. It took more than ten Ministerial positions, twice led the government of Israel, 2007?2014 was the President of the state. The signing of peace agreements with the Palestinians, Peres in 1994 received the Nobel prize jointly with the then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.


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