The former president of Israel, Shimon Peres, died on Wednesday in a Tel Aviv area hospital at 93. Peres was one of the last surviving founders of Israel. He died about two weeks after suffering a ...

Amanpour: "People are wondering whether not just Oslo, but the entire two-state solution, has been consigned to history." Reacting to the news that her 93-year-old former boss had died, former Israeli ...

People across the world today walk with heavy hearts over the passing of one of the most iconic diplomats of our time. Shimon Peres devoted much of his 93 years to service. As we mourn his death, let ...

While Israelis and much of the world mourned the death of Shimon Peres, Arab governments and commentators remained largely silent or attacked the former Israeli president and prime minister who called ...

President Barack Obama spoke Friday at the funeral for former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Peres was part of the founding generation of Israeli leaders with a political career that spanned ...

Most people knew Shimon Peres, who died on September 28, as a president and prime minister with a 60-year career in public service and a dedication to building peace in the Middle East. But 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 ...

Members of a Knesset squad carry the flag-draped coffin of former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Sept. 30. Getty Images Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace laureate and Israel’s last founding father, was ...

(RNS) This has been a bad summer for the Jewish people. As summer began, we lost Elie Wiesel, our greatest moral statesman. And now, as autumn begins, and the Jewish New Year approaches, we have lost ...

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He shined Shimon Peres’s shoes, cooked him breakfast and even helped him shower. As Peres’s live-in caregiver, Ferdinand Capacia knew the 9th Israeli president and Nobel Prize laureate in a way almost ...