Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in reflection at Ariel Sharon’s memorial outside the Knesset in Jerusalem. The official memorial ceremony will be followed by a private burial on the family's desert ranch in southern Israel. (AP/Bernat Armangue)

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks next to the coffin of late former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon outside the Knesset. A former elite paratrooper, Sharon was, as an armoured commander, instrumental in Israel’s crushing Six-Day War victory in 1967. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Members of the Knesset guard carry the coffin of late former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon at the Knesset Plaza in Jerusalem. Apart from his key role in the Six-Day War, Sharon also masterminded the Israeli ground offensive in the Sinai during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (AP/Bernat Armangue)

Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's sons Omri (L) and Gilad (2nd L) and other relatives walk behind his coffin. Israel was burying Sharon, one of its most skilled but controversial political and military leaders hailed for his tireless dedication to the Jewish state. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

The coffin of Ariel Sharon carried after a state memorial ceremony at the Knesset Plaza in Jerusalem. Sharon was prime minister from 2001 to 2006, when he suffered a stroke leaving him in a coma until his death on 11 January 2014. (AP/Bernat Armangue)

Although an undisputed war hero in Israel, Ariel Sharon cut a more controversial figure when he entered the political arena -- particularly for his role during the 1982 Lebanon War while he was defence minister. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Ariel Sharon's coffin stops at the Armored Corps memorial for fallen soldiers in Latrun near Jerusalem - site of a battle where Sharon was wounded during Israel's war of independence in 1948 - during a brief ceremony before continuing south to his farm for burial. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabili)

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the family ranch Havat Shikmin, near the Israeli city of Sderot in the southern Negev desert. Sharon had spent eight years in a coma. (AFP/BAZ RATNER)

Israelis lay flowers at Ariel Sharon's grave where he was buried next to his second wife Lily at the family ranch Havat Shikmin, near the Israeli city of Sderot in the southern Negev desert. (AFP/David Buimovich)

After the burial of former Prime Minister Sharon, his son Gilad Sharon (L) leaves the gravesite with his wife Inbal (C) and son. Ariel Sharon was buried next to his second wife Lily at the family ranch Havat Shikmin, near the Israeli city of Sderot in the southern Negev desert. (AFP/Jack Guez)