Former PM Shamir passes away at age 96 in Tel Aviv

01.07.2012                      11.Tammus. 5772

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Former PM Shamir passes away at age 96 in Tel Aviv

Netanyahu: Shamir “belonged to the generation of giants that established the State of Israel".

Former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir died at the age of 96 on Saturday, at the nursing home in which he lived in Tel Aviv, after a long illness.
He will be buried in Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl Cemetery in a state funeral on Monday after his son Yair returns from abroad. The procession will begin at the Knesset, where the public will be invited to pay its respects….