Netanyahu says that two months ago, he and his wife attended the opening of an innovation center at the Peres Peace House.
“I don’t think I’ve seen him so happy,” he says. “It was one of his dreams that came true.”
“Shimon always looked forward. He believed, like we believe, in progress, science, technology,” he says.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a eulogy at Shimon Peres’s funeral at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (screen capture: Channel 2)
Netanyahu says that these components should be used to both advance Israel militarily and to promote peace — so that modernity should triumph over “barbarism” and “good over evil.”
Wrapping up his eulogy, Netanyahu says: “I cry over you today. I loved you. We all loved you.”
Rest in peace, “dear man, acclaimed leader.”
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