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"There is an inverse relationship between how awful and evil an Israeli politician is and how many foreign heads of state come to his funeral.
Yehuda Avner z"l wrote about Menachem Begin's death/funeral in his first hand account of his work as the personal advisor to 4 Israeli PMs in "The Prime Ministers":
"The curtain descended and the lights went out on 9 March 1992. Menachem Begin, Israel's 6th prime minister, died of a heart attack, and Yechiel Kadishai opened the envelope which Begin had entrusted to him. The handwritten note it contained read:
My Dear Yechiel:
When the day comes, I request that you read to my dear ones, to my friends and comrades, this request: I ask to be buried on the Mount of Olives next to Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani. I thank you and all those who will carry out my request.
With love,
Menachem Begin
World leaders readied to fly to Jerusalem to attend the funeral, but Israeli embassies were swiftly instructed to inform governments that, at the request of the deceased, the funeral was to be a traditionally Jewish one: no lying in state, no military guard of honour, no official delegations, not even eulogies."............
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I don't remember either many foreign heads of state at Itzchak Shamir's funeral...nor at Reahavm Zeevi, זצוק״ל, הי״ד, or at Rafel Eitan's, זצוק״ל, הי״ד
