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Barack Obama speaks to the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, with Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin sitting to Obama’s right
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World leaders gather in Jerusalem to commemorate the architect of modern
Israel, who won the Nobel peace prize for his efforts to bring peace to
the Middle East
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| Former US president Bill Clinton prepares to speak. Clinton worked
closely with Peres on the Oslo accord of 1993, which was the first
face-to-face agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestine
Liberation Organisation
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| Former British prime ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron were in attendance | | |
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| A general view shows the funeral ceremony of former Israeli President Shimon Peres
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| The flag-draped coffin is carried by an honour guard
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US President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
wife of the Israeli prime minister Sara Netanyahu and former US
president Bill Clinton watch on as children place flowers on the grave
of Shimon Peres at the Mount Herzl national cemetery
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| Abbas sits beside the president of the European council, Donald Tusk
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Reuven Rivlin with King Felipe VI of Spain at the presidential compound
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Barack Obama speaks to the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, with Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin sitting to Obama’s right
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| Prince Charles speaks to Israel’s minister of sport and culture Miri Regev
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| Netanyahu pays his respects
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| Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, shakes hands with Netanyahu, in an image taken from a video
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| A wreath is carried by an Israeli soldier
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| Israelis sit in the shade outside the cemetery
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| Security guards patrol before the funeral
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| A man holds a picture of a dove with an olive branch, a symbol of peace,
with Israeli flags as a border police officer secures the area around
the cemetery |
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| oung ultra-Orthodox Jewish people stand on a wall near the cemetery before the funeral begins |
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Israelis queue to pay their respects at Peres’s coffin outside the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, the night before the funeral
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