No Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas summit, though all 3 will be at Peres funeral

US President Barack Obama will land Friday morning at Ben-Gurion International Airport to attend the funeral of former president and prime minister Shimon Peres, and will depart immediately after the ceremony, without taking the opportunity to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Obama last week hosted Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, in what was widely described as the likely last substantive meeting of the two during Obama’s presidency.

Although Wednesday’s confirmation that Obama would attend Peres’s funeral, and Thursday’s word from Abbas that he too would attend, prompted speculation about a summit, Israeli and American officials quickly made clear that there would no such meet.

The White House said in a statement Obama would leave immediately after the funeral.

While presidential predecessor Bill Clinton arrived in Israel on Thursday morning, and joined tens of thousands of Israelis paying respects to Peres as his coffin lay in state at the Knesset ahead of Friday morning’s funeral, Obama’s visit is solely for that ceremony, with no diplomatic meetings scheduled. Netanyahu met with Clinton on Thursday evening, and is slated to hold meetings with other leaders after the funeral Friday.

Obama’s visit will be his second as president. He previously came in 2013 for a three-day trip to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories. He made efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a priority of his presidency, and Secretary of State John Kerry brokered a major peace effort in 2013, but it collapsed a year later.

The US delegation Friday also includes Kerry, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo canceled his visit at the last minute after a deadly train crash in Hoboken New Jersey. It was not clear if New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, slated to fly to the funeral, would also nix his trip.

Abbas is expected to shake hands with Netanyahu at the ceremony, but nothing more substantive is planned, Israeli sources said.

Netanyahu is slated to meet Friday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Francois Hollande, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, among others.

He was forced to turn down other requests for meetings because of the onset of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, on Friday evening, Israel Radio reported.

Abbas’s attendance was only confirmed Thursday evening, after Palestinian and Israeli officials said he requested a permit to enter Israel along with four other senior officials.

Abbas wanted to “send a strong message to Israeli society that the Palestinians are for peace, and appreciate the efforts of peaceful men like Shimon Peres,” a senior Palestinian official said.

Hamas, the terror group that rules Gaza, protested Thursday that Abbas was showing “contempt” for Palestinian victims of the conflict with Israel by attending.

Egypt is also sending its foreign minister, and Jordan a deputy prime minister, a sign of Peres’s complicated standing in the Arab world, where he is both praised for his peace efforts but pilloried for his initial support of West Bank settlements and held accountable for military operations during his time as defense minister and prime minister .

With delegations from more than 70 countries, the funeral for Peres will be largest gathering of world leaders in Israel since the funeral in 1995 of the assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.