(VOVworld) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will attend the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Friday, according to a Palestinian official.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will attend the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Friday (Photo: Sigmalive)

Shimon Peres was the ninth President of Israel. He died recently at the age of 93 in Tel Aviv. In 1994, Peres was awarded the Nobel peace prize together with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for contributions to the Oslo accords between Israel and Palestine.