Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden at the State Funeral of Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

The Knesset, Jerusalem—(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2014.

THE VICE PRESIDENT:  When a close-knit country like Israel, a country that has been tested as much as Israel, loses a man like Prime Minister Sharon, it doesn’t just feel like the loss of a leader, it feels like a death in the family.  And many of my fellow Americans, some of whom are here, feel that same sense of loss. 

I say to Prime Minister Sharon’s beloved and devoted…