Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef visited Shimon Peres's bedside on Tuesday.
"I read a passage from the Tehilim at his bedside. He was a friend of my father's, and the two of us had a great relationship. An hour before my father died, he came and held his hand. We had a great relationship between us, and he respected every living thing, respected the rabbis, loved torah, and is very virtuous," he said.