Thousands of Israelis joined leading public figures in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the funerals of the four men killed in the Paris supermarket attack..

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin and Knesset opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog were among those who gathered at the Har Menuhot cemetery to witness the burials of Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yoann Cohenand François-Michel Saada.

Their bodies were flown to Israel early on Tuesday morning.

Ségolène Royal, France's ecology minister, also attended and announced that President François Hollande had bestowed the Légion d'honneur, the country's highest civilian award, on them.

Israeli's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef began the service by reading from the Book of Psalms, before the victims' family members recited the Kaddish and read eulogies.

Mr Rivlin told mourners: "Europe's leaders must firmly and actively restore the sense of security for the Jews of Europe. It should not be the case that in 2015, 70 years since the end of World War Two, that Jews should be afraid to walk with a yarmulke on their heads and tzitzit under their clothes in the streets of Europe."

Mr Netanyahu said: "Their lives were severed in an attack of hate and vile murder, but we will not amass words on the despicable murderer nor on the other murderers who killed other innocent people in France.

"The time has to come for all civilised people to unite and uproot these enemies from our midst."

The Prime Minister had previously spoken at a memorial event at Paris's Grand Synagogue on Sunday, after participating in the city's solidarity rally.

He told his audience: "The truth and righteousness are with us. Our common enemy is extreme Islam, not Islam, not regular extremists, but extreme Islam."

A separate memorial for the four men was held over the weekend in Tel Aviv.

The uncle of 23-year-old Hyper Cacher employee Mr Cohen said at the funeral: "When he stood face to face with terror, he did not hesitate to demonstrate courage."