The Foreign Ministry: International delegations that have confirmed their attendance of the funeral for Israel’s ninth President, Shimon Peres so far:
• US President Barak Obama
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
• Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary
• French President Francois Hollande
• Prince Charles
• Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
• US Secretary of State John Kerry
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel
• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
• US Vice President Joe Biden
• German President Joachim Gauck
• French President Francois Hollande
• Crown Prince Charles and his wife
• Former Queen of the Netherlands, Queen Beatrix
• Romanian President Klaus Iohannnis
• Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe
• Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Great to hear Hilary will be here. Hope she doesn’t stumble down the plane stair and cause herself a fatal injury.
Will there not be any Arab leaders present? At Rabin’s funeral there were many high powered delegations:
Egypt:
President Hosni Mubarak
Foreign Minister Amr Moussa
Information Minister Safwat Elsherif
Dr. Moustafa Khalil
Jordan:
H.M. King Hussein
Queen Nour Al Hussein
Crown Prince Hassan
Prime Minister Zeid Bin Shaker
Foreign Minister Kabariti Aboui Karim
Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court Marwan Kasim
Member Upper House of Parliament Zeid Rifai
Member Upper House of Parliament Abdul Salam Majali
Morocco:
Prime Minister Abdul Afif Filali
Counsellor to the King Andre Azoulay
Minister of Science Gen. Abdulhak Kadiri
Mauritania:
Foreign Minister Ould Lehkah Moahem Salem
Oman:
Foreign Minister Yusuf Bin Alawi Abdallah
Qatar:
Information Minister Ahmed El Aziz Al-Kuwari
Lebanon
S.L.A. Commander Antoine Lahad
The Egyptian and Jordanian delegations were very high powered.
When is it?
I wonder how this will impact all the Rosh Hashana travel.
Why would Obama, Biden
Shimon Peres zl facts”
Defense Minister during Entebe Raid
Responsible for Israels Nuclear Program
Responsible for Israel’s first satelite system
Hillary Clinton well understands the # of Americans voting from Israel including former Floridians & Ohioans, so well calculated ulterior motives in going to Israel.
Francois Hollande will be attending twice.
Prince Charles too will be attending twice however his wife, will only be making one appearance.
#2
When all is said and done,
They had more respect for
Rabin and his pugnacious toughness
All this circus is nauseating. Why not just give him kosher burial today.
Who is Crown Prince Charles?