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Shimon Peres, Israeli leader for 8 decades, dies at 93

Shimon Peres, whose public career spanned the entire history of the state of Israel, reaching the highest of highs (the Oslo Accords) and the lowest of lows (the assassination of his close colleague Yitzhak Rabin) in the mid 1990s, has died.Peres, who suffered a stroke Sept. 13, was 93. The Jerusalem Post said he "suffered severe organ failure Tuesday." Peres and Rabin shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.” Their attempt, backed by President Bill Clinton, at solving the seemingly intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the biggest breakthrough in the region since the Israel-Egypt accords of 1978 and offered, for a time, hope for better days.

 

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