The casket bearing elder statesman Shim'on Peres is scheduled to leave the Knesset at 8:30 am on Friday. An hour later, the farewell observance and eulogies will start at Mount Herzl.
The scene is scheduled to shift to the section of the memorial park reserved for the nation's great figures at 11:15 am, with the state burial observance scheduled to begin at 11:45.