Thousands of Israelis filed by the bier of Yisrael Yeshayahu in the Knesset plaza Thursday to pay last respects to the former Speaker of the Knesset who died Wednesday at the age of 68. Yeshayahu, who was born in Yemen in 1911 and immigrated to Palestine in 1929, was buried Thursday on Mt. Herzl in a plot set aside for national leaders.
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