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Dvora Szerer, a spokeswoman for the National Transplant Center that manages organ donation in Israel, says older corneas are primarily used as temporary solutions in emergencies, or used in operations to treat glaucoma.

A senior Palestinian official says President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to attend Shimon Peres' funeral on Friday.

The official says Abbas will lead a delegation of top Palestinian officials, including his chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.

The son-in-law and personal physician of Shimon Peres says the former Israeli president left behind detailed plans for his funeral.

Dr. Rafi Walden says Peres requested that his three children speak, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, a foreign dignitary and an Israeli cultural figure.

Israeli police say 8,000 police officers have been deployed to maintain order during the mourning period.

In their letter released Thursday, the two call Peres "a champion of peace" who forged "close ties of friendship and cooperation between Israel and other parts of the world, including Europe."

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, French President Francois Hollande and German President Joachim Gauck are among scores of world leaders, including U.S President Barack Obama, attending Peres' funeral Friday in Jerusalem.

Peres shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for attempting to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

[...] the peace process has collapsed.

The following year, Peres shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

The hostility is colored by Peres' role in building his country's defense arsenal, supporting Israeli settlements in the West Bank and waging war in Lebanon.

[...] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has lauded Peres for reaching a "peace of the brave" with the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin are laying wreaths on the casket of Shimon Peres in the plaza of Israel's parliament, the Knesset.

Over his seven-decade political career, he transformed from a hawk to a Nobel Prize-winning advocate of reconciliation with Palestinians.