UK Jewish leaders hail ‘towering statesman’

30 September 2016, 9:09 am

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UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis says he feels “privileged” to be part of the official British delegation at Peres’s funeral. It’s a “very moving day” and a “day of strength and unity,” he says.

Jonathan Arkush, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, is also there to “pay tribute to the memory of a towering statesman, a man of humanitarian ideals who helped Israel be strong and who did everything he could to help Israel make peace,” he tells The Times of Israel.

Arkush says the British Jewish community is “enormously appreciative” that the Jewish leaders are included in the official government delegation.

— Sara Miller