From Timetable of Peres funeral, memorial
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePeres’s funeral will begin on Friday at 8:30 a.m., when his body will be transferred from the Knesset to the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
Eulogies will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the cemetery. At noon, the burial ceremony will be held. The funeral is expected to end at 1:30 p.m.
On Thursday, Peres’s body will lie in state at the Knesset from 8:45 a.m. to 9 p.m. The public is invited to the Knesset to pay their last respects. The memorial will open on Thursday morning with Netanyahu, Rivlin, and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein laying wreaths on the coffin.
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