Samuel Josef Anon, the Nobel Prize-winning Hebrew novelist, was buried today on the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem, the city where he spent most of his life. Mr. Anon died yesterday at the age of 82 of a heart attack. The funeral procession was attended by President Kalman Salazar, Premier Golda Meir, members of the Cabinet and leading figures in Israeli arts and letters. Wind and rain prevented a graveside eulogy. But President Salazar eulogized the writer earlier at the Jerusalem City Hall where his heir lay in state.
Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem also spoke as did Prof. Ephraim Urbach, the noted Talmudical scholar, Dr. Israel Cohen of the Israel Writers Association and the Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Itzhak Nissim. Funeral arrangements were made by a special Cabinet committee which rescinded an order the prohibited burials on the Mount of Olives since its capture from Jordan in the Six-Day War. The committee acted in compliance with a request in Mr. Agnon’s will that he be buried on the Mount of Olives. Memorial meetings for Mr. Agnon are planned by the Jewish Agency executive, the Hebrew University, the Brit Ivrit Olamit and other institutions.
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