Micha Reiser, a Likud Knesset member, was buried Friday at Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv.
Premier Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres were among the several thousand mourners who attended his funeral.
Reiser, 42, a two-term member of the Knesset, died Thursday night of injuries suffered in an accident on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway.
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