Israel's longest serving statesman Shimon Peres died early Wednesday. JERUSALEM -- Israel's longest serving statesman Shimon Peres died early Wednesday, leaving the country mourning the last of the ...

Peres suffered a stroke two weeks ago and was placed on a respirator following the incident. His health deteriorated despite the life support. The former prime minister served two terms and later as ...

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres remains in serious but stable condition, a CT scan showed five days after he suffered a massive stroke. The scan conducted on Sunday morning at Sheba Medical ...

Vice President Joe Biden mourned the passing of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, remembering him as an “amazing leader,” “a force of nature” and “one of the few men in the world whose experience ...

Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician who served both as ninth President of Israel, and Prime Minister of Israel, as well as Interim Prime Minister. He was a member of twelve cabinets in a political ...

Quotes from around the world after the death of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and elder statesman of Israeli politics, at age 93. “A light has gone out, but the ...

WASHINGTON — Members of Shimon Peres’ family will light candles at President Barack Obama’s final Hanukkah party using a family heirloom menorah. Chemi Peres, the late Israeli president’s son, and ...

In what proved to be the last book he wrote before his death, “No Room for Small Dreams,” Israeli statesman Shimon Peres presciently observed, “Technological progress has created bridges across ...

Tehran warns Dimona reactor could be targeted if ‘regime change’ pursued, throwing spotlight on Israel’s opaque nuclear program - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Elder statesman Shimon Peres was elected to the largely ceremonial post of president of Israel Wednesday, capping a career that has spanned six decades and, Israelis hope, restoring dignity to a ...

The price will be high if people don’t resist Netanyahu’s ugly, nihilistic Gaza policy. By Thomas L. Friedman Nimrod Novik, a former adviser to Shimon Peres, discusses how Israel could work toward a ...