JERUSALEM — World leaders made plans to converge on Israel to pay tribute to Shimon Peres, the Nobel Prize-winning former prime minister who died on Wednesday, focusing renewed attention on his quest for peace in a fractured land that fell well short of his dreams.

Presidents, prime ministers, and a prince accepted invitations to the funeral on Friday for Peres, who transformed himself from a polarizing figure to perhaps Israel’s most renowned elder statesman.

Peres, 93, who slipped away just over two weeks after what his doctor called “a massive stroke,’’ emerged as a symbol of what might have been, after the peace accords he helped broker in the 1990s failed to bring lasting change.

The United States will send a delegation including President Obama, former president Bill Clinton, and Secretary of State John Kerry, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.

But the ministry mistakenly reported that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president and a former secretary of state, would attend. With just weeks until the election, Clinton’s campaign said she would not attend.

Obama, who has been at odds with the current Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, over the logjammed peace process, made clear that he saw the moment as an opportunity to prod Israel to fulfill Peres’ legacy.

“I can think of no greater tribute to his life than to renew our commitment to the peace that we know is possible,’’ Obama said in a prepared statement.

Some Israeli analysts said they expected Obama to use the occasion to make a new pitch for a peace settlement that would grant statehood to the Palestinians, but they doubted that Peres’ death would change the dynamic.

“Just by appearing here, he’ll probably want to make a speech that will mention the two-state solution,’’ said Zalman Shoval, a two-time Israeli ambassador to the United States and a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party. “On whom will this have an impact is another question. On the Israeli public? I don’t think so. On the Palestinians? They have their own problems.’’

Peres’ body was to lie in state Thursday at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, and the funeral will be at Mount Herzl, the national cemetery.

New York Times