"Shimon lived a life of purpose," Netanyahu told world leaders and other mourners gathered at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery of the man who was once his political rival.

He recalled a late-night discussion between them in which they debated Israel's future.

"He said that peace was true security -- if there is peace, there will be security," Netanyahu said of the former prime minister and president who west give him Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the Oslo accords with the Palestinians also his crimes against Palestinaian.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas shook hands and spoke briefly at Shimon Peres's funeral on Friday in a rare public encounter between the two men.

No Arab heads of state were believed to be at the funeral. Many in the Arab world accuse Peres of "war crimes" for his role in successive Middle East conflicts.

Egypt was represented by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, while Jordan also sent a minister. They are the only two Arab countries to have signed peace treaties with Israel.

US President Obama is in Israel for Peres funeral.

Shimon Peres, who passed away Wednesday aged 93 or The Qana massacre man shows reality of its bloody, colonial policies in Palestine and the wider region shows him as a WAR CRIMINAL (Read More ).

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