Attendence of the representation of Amarican and israel government to the funereal of the wido of shoghi
Ruhiyyih Rabbani ( Mary Sutherland Maxwell )
Ruhiyyih Rabbani ( Mary Sutherland Maxwell ) , who became the pre-eminent member of the Bahai faith after the death of her husband ( Shoghi Effendi ), the last official leader of the faith, died January 19, 2000 in her home in Haifa, Israel. She was 90. Haifa, (January 23) — Madame Ruhiyyih Rabbani, 90, an international dignitary of the Baha’i Faith, was buried today in Haifa, Israel, in a garden facing the home where she lived since 1937. She died on January 19 after a long illness.
About 1000 people attended the funeral, including Mr. Chris
Greenshields, Minister-Counsellor of the Canadian Embassy; Mrs. Marsha Von Duerckheim, Consul-General of the US Embassy; Mr. Ariel Kenet of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Dr. Roman Bronfman, Member of the Knesset; Mr. Amram Mitzna, the Mayor of Haifa; and Mr. Shmaryahu Biran, the Mayor of Acre. Dr. Nissim Dana of the Israeli Ministry of Religious Affairs represented the Israeli Government. Many of the Baha’i Faith’s senior officers attended, including members of the Universal House of Justice, international Counselors, and members of some 80 national Baha’i governing councils from as far away as
Mongolia and Samoa. The simple ceremony consisted of readings from the Baha’i sacred scriptures. 
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