Israel – Gil-Ad Shaer,16, Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16 were set to be laid to rest at the Modi’in cemetery at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
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Separate processions will set out from the homes of the three teens in Talmon, Elad and Nof Ayalon at 3:30 p.m.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres were expected to attend the funeral.
The bodies of the boys were discovered on Monday in a field northwest of Hebron after 18 days of searches.
The Abu Kabir Forensics Institute in Tel Aviv completed the identification of the three murdered teens on Tuesday morning.
Forensics work will continue Tuesday to try to determine the circumstances of the murders.
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