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Peres’s family to light White House Hanukkah candles
Son and grandaughter of deceased statesman to join first family in celebrating Jewish festival with Holocaust-era menorah
Chemi Peres, son of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres, pauses in front of his father's coffin after speaking during his funeral on September 30, 2016, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
The son and a granddaughter of the late Israeli President Shimon Peres reportedly will join the first family to mark Hanukkah at the White House.
Nechemia “Chemi” Peres and Mika Almog will join President Barack Obama and wife Michelle for their last traditional Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony at the White House, Ynet reported Monday. Almog is an Israeli screenwriter and satirist.
Peres and Almog will visit the White House next week, when the ceremony will be held, according to the report. Christmas and Chanukah coincide this year.
They will bring with them a menorah passed down through the Peres family since the Holocaust, Ynet reported.
President Barack Obama holds up Kylie Schmitter as she, alongside her sister Lainey Schmitter, lights the menorah during the first of two Hanukkah receptions in the White House, on Thursday, December 5, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)
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