Monday, April 28, 2008

Peres's Memorial for Harel

Jewish President Shimon Peres delivers a speech during a memorial ceremony for Yossi Harel in Tel Aviv on 28 April 2008.

Flowers surround the coffin of Yossi Harel (portrait) draped in the Israeli flag during a memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv on 28 April 2008.

Harel, the captain of the Exodus ship that tried to transport some 4,500 Holocaust survivors from Europe to British Occupied-Mandated Palestine in 1947, died on 26 April at the age of 90.

In 2007, Harel received the Exodus prize, awarded by the Italian government to those who promote peace and humanitarianism.
Yossi Harel is survived by his wife, Julie, and three children.

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