The ceremonies began in Jerusalem the day before.
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres will be buried on Friday on the home national cemetery in Jerusalem to bid him farewell attended by delegations from 70 countries headed by presidents, Prime Ministers, Royal personages and parliamentary leaders.
The ninth Chapter in the history of the Jewish state, Nobel peace prize winner died on Wednesday night at the age of 93, never recovered from a stroke he suffered two weeks earlier.
The ceremonies began in Jerusalem the day before. Closed casket, draped in the blue and white flag, Israeli flag, set on the square in front of Parliament under the banners dropped down and surrounded by honor guard and military rabbis, who read the funeral prayer. Back in the day, the continuous flow were thousands of ordinary Israelis who want to say goodbye to the past the founding father of the state.
Perez will be buried on Jerusalem’s mount Herzl is the resting place of the leaders of the Jewish state and the leaders of the Zionist movement since its founder, Theodor Herzl, after whom is named the memorial. Directly burial will be preceded by a public ceremony of farewell to the speeches of politicians and family members of the deceased.
The American delegation will be headed by President Barack Obama. Former President bill Clinton was one of the first arrived in Israel. Even before he came to Parliament to on par with ordinary Israelis to say goodbye to the Peres, with whom he had years of friendship and working together on resolving the middle East conflict.
At the funeral ceremonies are waiting for 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, President of the European Council, Prime Ministers of Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Director-General of UNESCO and many other current and former government officials.
Local media reported the intention to attend the funeral of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, a long-time partner of Perez for the middle East peace process.
The police and security services called Friday’s event the most ambitious in the history of Israel. To ensure the safety of the guests would be seven thousand police officers that are going to block the streets in Jerusalem and from time to time to block highway number one linking the town with an international airport and a densely populated coastal plain.
Additional complexity creates the time factor. The organizers seek to end the funeral so that law enforcement officers and other involved services managed to return home by the beginning of the Sabbath — the Jewish Sabbath that begins at sundown on Friday. The tel Aviv airport and no aircraft of foreign leaders to work in the mode of peak loads, serving thousands of Israelis are leaving on vacation for the coming next week long series of Jewish feasts and fasts.
Perez 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 program, the architect of middle East peace process. He changed more than a dozen Ministerial posts, was twice Prime Minister in 2007-2014, he was President of the country.
For the development and signing of peace agreements with the Palestinians, Peres in 1994 received the Nobel prize along with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
