Among those expected to be present include US First Lady Hillary Clinton, German President Johannes Rau, the wife of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, UN Middle East envoy Terje Larsen, the speakers of the Norwegian parliament and the Canadian House of Commons, a member of the Austrian parliament, and South Africa's Winnie Mandela. The list was issued by the office of Minister Matan Vilna'i, chairman of the Ministerial Committee on Symbols and Ceremonies.

Conspicuously absent was Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, who was believed to be considering a visit to Jerusalem for the occasion, a move which Vilna'i said Israel would not stop.

His office said that all foreign ambassadors in the country are expected to attend. The widow of Jordan's King Hussein, Queen Noor, is sending a wreath which is to be laid on the grave by a Jordanian Embassy official.

Rabin's body is to lay in state from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv, where the public can pay its last respects. The casket will be transported to Jerusalem by ambulance, escorted by family members.

The ceremony on Mount Herzl is to begin at 3 p.m. with a religious service. The funeral will be broadcast live on radio and television.

Eulogies will be delivered by President Moshe Katsav, Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Regional Cooperation Minister Shimon Peres, and a family representative.

The ceremony is expected to last an hour.

Katsav's participation is considered controversial in some circles because of his presence, as a Likud MK, at a 1995 rally in Jerusalem's Kikar Zion just weeks before Rabin's assassination. Leah Rabin considered the rally a symbol of the incitement she viewed as responsible for her husband's murder by Yigal Amir.

Katsav was the object of a blistering attack at a One Israel faction meeting last week that marked the fifth anniversary of the assassination.

However, he met with Leah Rabin in the hospital just days before her death, and according to reports, she thanked him for his address at this month's memorial ceremony, and was believed to have put the matter behind her. If so, it would mark a contrast from her refusal to forgive Binyamin Netanyahu, who stood on the same terrace at the '95 rally.

Clinton, who won the election to US Senate seat last week, is to use her short visit to meet with Katsav and Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, and have lunch with the Baraks, according to a schedule released by the US Embassy. She is to arrive around midday and leave tonight.

Though he is not expected to attend the funeral, questions were raised over whether Arafat would pay a condolence call on the Rabins, as he did, in a secret visit, after Yitzhak's death.

In Tel Aviv, Rehov Ibn Gvirol will be closed from Rehov Arlosoroff to King David Street from 12:30 to 1 to allow the procession to pass. In Jerusalem, streets around Sderot Herzl will be closed briefly, but the funeral procession is expected to cause traffic congestion from the entrance to the city to Mount Herzl.

(Heidi J. Gleit contributed to this report.)