MENACHEM BEGIN IS LAID TO REST IN SIMPLE MOUNT OF OLIVES CEREMONY

MENACHEM BEGIN IS LAID TO REST IN SIMPLE MOUNT OF OLIVES CEREMONY

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March 10, 1992 | Gil Sedan | Copyright

Gil Sedan
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
03-10-1992
MENACHEM BEGIN IS LAID TO REST IN SIMPLE MOUNT OF OLIVES CEREMONY.

JERUSALEM, March 9 (JTA)--Menachem Begin ordered "a simple Jewish funeral" and that is what he got Monday, a few hours after he died of a heart ailment at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv at the age of 78.

Begin was buried on the Mount of Olives, beside his beloved wife, Aliza, who died in 1982.

His funeral was simple in the tradition of Orthodox Jews, who bury their dead as quickly as possible and frown on floral displays and lying in state.

Begin rejected the state funeral which was his due as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983.

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