After Netanyahu, Peres back out

«Knesset Speaker to head Israeli delegation at memorial as PM, Peres can't attend for financial, security reasons.

The US sent its president and three former presidents to Tuesday's memorial service for anti-apartheid hero and former South African president Nelson Mandela. The UK and France sent its prime ministers, as did another nearly 90 countries. Oprah Winfrey and the Dalai Lama were set to attend. Israel, however, came close to sending no one, in a near diplomatic fiasco that started Sunday and developed throughout Monday.

In the end, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein flew Monday night to the memorial service, along with the first female Ethiopian MK Pnina Tamnu-Shata (Yesh Atid), as well as MKs Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid), Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), Gila Gamliel (Likud Beytenu) and Hilik Bar (Labor).»

After Netanyahu, Peres back out, Israel sends Edelstein to Mandela funeral | JPost | Israel News
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