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What Matters Most On Friday, September 30, 2016

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Honor guards carry the casket of former Israeli president during his funeral at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Israel, world leaders pay final honors to founding father Shimon Peres

Netanyahu expresses love for late president, shakes hands with Abbas before ceremony on Mount Herzl, Rivlin honors Israel’s ‘eternal fountain of youth’

Netanyahu, Abbas shake hands, exchange pleasantries, at Peres funeral

By Ilan Ben Zion

Live updates (closed)Shimon Peres, Israel’s last founding father, buried in Jerusalem

By Marissa Newman

Clinton on Peres: ‘When he spoke, it could be like listening to a psalm’

By Eric Cortellessa

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with US President Barack Obama at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery during the funeral of former president Shimon Peres on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Pool/Menahem Kahana)

Obama remembers Peres as 20th century ‘giant’ determined for peace

US president says Abbas’s presence a ‘reminder of the unfinished business of peace’; recalls Peres’s insistence ‘Jewish people were not born to rule another people’

Full text of Benjamin Netanyahu’s eulogy for Shimon Peres

Full text of President Barack Obama’s eulogy for Shimon Peres

Full text of President Reuven Rivlin’s eulogy for Shimon Peres

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, attends the funeral of former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Stephen Crowley)

Analysis

At Peres funeral, PM and Abbas shake hands, but won’t shake up peace process

By Raphael Ahren

Despite his not-so-subtle digs at Netanyahu, Obama went home without any apparent effort to bring Jerusalem and Ramallah closer together

Hamas slams ‘contemptible’ Abbas condolences to Peres family

By Stuart Winer

Peres’s 2-state support must be upheld, Jordan king says in condolence letter

By Stuart Winer

Saying history ‘complicated,’ entire Arab party to skip Peres funeral

Almost a decade after the failed London Agreement, prime minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan meet in the Royal Palace in Amman in December 1995. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Missed opportunity? The 1987 Peres-Hussein peace deal that wasn’t

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Pushed by Margaret Thatcher, Shimon Peres believed the London Agreement would have averted the Intifada. Here’s what went wrong

US President Barack Obama touches the coffin of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres after speaking during his funeral at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Pool/Abir Sultan)

Analysis

Obama’s empathetic speech raises questions of what might have been

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: Invoking Peres’s vision of insistent hope, the US president delivers a eulogy laden with warmth for the Jewish state and understanding of its challenges. If only he’d come here and said something similar seven years ago

18 quotes by Shimon Peres to live by

Inspiring posters present many of the elder statesman’s memorable statements

He includes himself among today’s rabbis who are remiss in bolstering Jews’ confidence at home, with their God (Nitzavim)

Jonathan Bernstein

Cycling across Israel — A daily journal

Father and son biked 400 miles up and down the country, bonding with each other, the IDF, and the land itself

Israelis arrive at the Knesset plaza to pay their respects to former president Shimon Peres as he lay in state at the Israeli parliament, Jerusalem, September 29, 2016. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Tens of thousands say last goodbyes to Peres, who ‘loved every single one’

By Raphael Ahren

From those who knew the former president well to those who just appreciated what he did for the country, Israeli and foreigners line up outside Knesset to pay respects

The personal staff of late former president Shimon Peres standing near the burial plot at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Peres planned his own funeral, down to songs and speakers, son says

By AP and ToI Staff

Delegations from over 70 countries due, including Abbas and officials from Jordan, Egypt; Israeli David D’or to sing ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ prayer; Rivlin, Netanyahu, Obama, Bill Clinton to speak

Ban Ki-Moon (l), Danny Danon (c) and Samantha Power (r) stand in a minute's silence as the United Nations holds a memorial ceremony for Shimon Peres, September 29, 2016 (courtesy)

UN chief, envoys gather in New York to commemorate Peres

Representatives of over 40 nations offer a minute of silence, recall former president’s ‘compassion, optimism’

Activists light candles that say "We love you Shimon Peres" at a memorial for the former president at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on September 29, 2016. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

In Tel Aviv, (not many) peaceniks gather to keep Peres’s flame alive

By Melanie Lidman

Sitting and talking, just as their late leader would, dozens of Young Labor activists hold ‘peace circle’ in Rabin Square as a reminder of the ideals the former president stood for

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, September 29, 2016 (Haim Zach, GPO)

Netanyahu talks peace with EU’s Mogherini, has warm meet with Bill Clinton

Former US president and Europe’s foreign policy chief in Israel for Friday funeral of former president Peres

Former president Shimon Peres speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, November 2, 2015. (AP/Dan Balilty)

In one of his last interviews, Peres called Trump’s views ‘unbelievable, ignorant’

By Eric Cortellessa

Two weeks before his fatal stroke, Israel’s elder statesman warned against the notion of an isolationist America

View of the the King David Hotel seen from central Jerusalem, on February 8, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem’s iconic King David Hotel evicts guests to accommodate world leaders

Influx of VIPs for Peres funeral meant nearly all the rooms had to be emptied, and fast, says CEO

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Bedford, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Dismissing risks, Trump goes all-in on Bill Clinton’s past

The thrice-married GOP candidate is focusing on the former president’s infidelities, a move analysts say could alienate women voters

In this photo, members of the Syrian Civil Defense group, known as the White Helmets, inspect cluster bombs in the Khan Sheikhoun neighborhood of Idlib, Syria, September 29, 2016. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

UN warns of ‘merciless abyss’ in besieged eastern Aleppo

At least 320 civilians, including 100 children, killed in past week as Russia-backed regime forces advance through Syria’s largest city

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and others bow their heads before a memorial for the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev Ukraine on September 29, 2016. (Shahar Azran / WJC)

Mournful Ukraine marks 75 years since Babi Yar massacre

By Tamar Pileggi and AFP

President tells ceremony in Kiev that country cannot forget 1941 slaying of 34,000 Jews by Nazis, aided by locals, at edge of ravine

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (L) arrives at a restaurant for lunch in Hanoi on September 29, 2016.
The Philippine leader is on a two-day visit to Vietnam. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / KHAM)

Philippines’ Duterte compares drug crackdown to Hitler’s Holocaust

By JTA

Controversial president says he’d be ‘happy to slaughter’ millions of drug addicts like Nazi leader massacred the Jews

In Berlin, Germany, the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe, November 2012 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Targeting students, Holocaust deniers up their game online

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

Tsvia Walden, Shimon Peres's daughter, eulogizes the former president and Nobel Prize winner at his funeral at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (screen capture: GPO livestream)

Full text of Tsvia Walden’s eulogy for her father, Shimon Peres

Chemi Peres, Shimon Peres’s son, eulogizes the former president and Nobel Prize winner at his funeral at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (screen capture: GPO livestream)

Full text of Chemi Peres’s eulogy for his father, Shimon Peres

Yoni Peres, Shimon Peres’s son, eulogizes the former president and Nobel Prize winner at his funeral at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (screen capture: GPO livestream)

Full text of Yoni Peres’s eulogy for his father, Shimon Peres

New Yorker and Holocaust survivor Gina Zuckerman. (Screenshot from New York Post video, via JTA)

Bout with a bubbeHolocaust survivor, 90, fights off purse snatcher

By Gabe Friedman

President Shimon Peres with Barbra Streisand at Peres's 90th birthday party, June 19, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Stars, CEO and Streisand mourn ‘symbol of peace’ Peres online

By Stuart Winer

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto seen entering Nitzan prison on February 16, 2016, beginning a one year prison term. (Flash90)

Court quashes parole board decision to free celebrity rabbi

Rabbi Hanoch Hecht, left, on 'Chopped' with host Ted Allen (Courtesy of Hecht/via JTA)

Fancy feastsCelebrity chefs share Rosh Hashanah recipes

By Beth Kissileff

The face of Adolf Hitler is projected onto a 3D canvas as part of an art installation during a rehearsal for the "Berlin Leuchtet" ("Berlin shines") festival in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Führer furyPolice rush to ghostly laughing Hitler on Berlin building

By AP

Israel's Yarden Gerbi points to the Israeli flag after defeating Japan's Miku Tashiro to win the bronze medal in the women's -63kg judo contest at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 9, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/Jack GUEZ)

The best of times5 feel-good stories from Israel in 5776

By Andrew Tobin

An Israeli pays his last respects to former president Shimon Peres at the Knesset on September 29, 2016, where his coffin lay in state the day before his burial on Mount Herzl. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Farewell to a founding father

By Adiv Sterman

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