Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
On a cloudless blue morning, an honor guard brought the flag-draped casket of Shimon Peres to the Mount Herzl national cemetery on Friday as 100 world leaders and dignitaries from 70 countries assembled to bid a final farewell to the former Israeli leader and Nobel laureate. President Barack Obama, who was the last to speak, said that the contribution made by Peres to Israel was "so fundamental, so pervasive, it can sometimes be overlooked."
Dozens of world leaders are gathering in Israel to pay tributes to Shimon Peres, one of the country's founding fathers, who died on Wednesday aged 93. A funeral procession is en route to the national cemetery in Jerusalem, where Mr Peres will be laid to rest. A security crackdown ahead of the ceremony has led to the "preventative arrests" of several people.
U.S. President Barack Obama touches the casket of former Israeli President Shimon Peres after speaking during his funeral at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 JERUSALEM -- President Barack Obama hailed Shimon Peres Friday as a man who showed the world that justice and hope are at the heart of the Zionist ideal and saw "all people as deserving of dignity and respect."
Israelis, along with dignitaries from around the world, were gathering in Jerusalem Friday for the funeral of former President Shimon Peres. U.S. President Barack Obama , Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Francois Hollande, German President Joachim Gauck and scores of other world leaders are attending the funeral.
Former US President Bill Clinton accompanied by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Yuli Edelstein, the Speaker of the Knesset, pays his final respects at the coffin of former Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Knesset plaza in Jerusalem, yesterday. Former US President Bill Clinton joined thousands of Israeli mourners yesterday who paid their respects to the late Shimon Peres outside Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, as the country somberly remembered the Nobel-winning politician who helped lead Israel during a remarkable seven-decade career.
U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders gathered in Israel on Friday for the funeral of Shimon Peres, the former Israeli prime minister and president whose pursuit of an elusive peace with the Palestinians won international embrace. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also planned to attend the burial, which will be held in the "Great Leaders of the Nation" section of Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery.
In this March 21, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres raise their glasses in a toast after Obama received the Israeli Medal of Distinction from Peres during a State Dinner at President's residence in Jerusalem, Israel. Both were Nobel Prize laureates who labored for peace in the Middle East but failed to achieve it.
A town hall event on veterans' issues on CNN Wednesday night with President Barack Obama proved an emotional evening. The president performed admirably when peppered with tough questions from vets and the survivors of the men and women who lost their lives in the line of duty.
More than 70 U.S. intellectuals have called for a targeted boycott of all goods and services from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The boycott call came in an open letter in the Oct. 13 New York Review of Books.
29, 2016, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. . Military Personnel salute as Air Force One, with President Barack Obama aboard, prepares to departs at Andrews Air Force Base Md., Thursday, Sept.
Republican congressional leaders will not be joining President Obama's bipartisan delegation to attend Friday's state funeral for former Israeli President Shimon Peres. Both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer joined the U.S. presidential delegation, which departed Thursday afternoon for Jerusalem.
The Latest on funeral preparations and a nation in mourning at the death of Israel's ninth President, Shimon Peres : The son-in-law and personal physician of Shimon Peres says the former Israeli president left behind detailed plans for his funeral. Dr. Rafi Walden says Peres requested that his three children speak, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, a foreign dignitary and an Israeli cultural figure.
A U.S. law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia over the Sept. 11 attacks met a stony silence from Riyadh on Thursday but some Saudis bristled, saying the kingdom could curb business and security ties in response to an ally's perceived affront.
The body of Israel's ninth President Shimon President is lying in state in the plaza of the Knesset, Israel's parliament. President Barack Obama , Bill Clinton and French President Francois Hollande are among scores of world leaders who will attend the funeral in the country's national cemetery in Jerusalem Friday.
Members of the Badr Organisation undergo training before the upcoming battle to recapture Mosul in Diyala province, Iraq, on September 27, 2016. Photo - Reuters Members of the Badr Organisation undergo training before the upcoming battle to recapture Mosul in Diyala province, Iraq, on September 27, 2016.
In this March 22, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama walks on the tarmac with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, prior to his departure from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. Shimon Peres, a former Israeli president and prime minister, whose life story mirrored that of the Jewish state and who was celebrated around the world as a Nobel prize-winning visionary who pushed his country toward peace, has died, the Israeli news website YNet reported early Wednesday, Sept.
Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on Wednesday, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke, triggering an outpouring of grief for the beloved elder statesman. The 93-year-old died in his sleep at around 3:00 am , Rafi Walden, who was Peres's personal doctor and also his son-in-law, told AFP.
In this Aug. 15, 2016 file photo, Marc Zell, co-chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel, speaks as the Republican Party launches its first election campaign in Israel, in Modiin. Supporters of Republican candidate Donald Trump have set up a campaign office in a Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank, hoping to tap into the large numbers of American immigrants in the area for support.
A former aide to Shimon Peres says his body will lie in state at the Knesset, or Israeli parliament, on Thursday before a state funeral at the country's national cemetery in Jerusalem on Friday. Yona Bartal, his former aide, told Israel's Channel 10 TV that the plans were in line with Peres' wishes.