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 ...

Shimon Peres departs the White House after meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office in Washington in 2009. Dan Senor and Saul Singer are authors of “Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel ...

Shimon Peres, the Israeli elder statesman who shared a Nobel Prize for forging a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, has died. He served as a constant force for generations in Israeli ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Shimon Peres, the former defense hawk turned Nobel Peace Prize winner and the last of Israel’s founders, has died. Peres died before dawn Wednesday at 93, Israel Radio reported.

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

Shimon Peres, who led Israel as prime minister and president in an enduring six-decade political career built on promoting peace between Arabs and Jews, died Tuesday while being hospitalized from ...

In 2012, then-Israeli President Shimon Peres was awarded America’s highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Upon receiving that honor, Peres said, “Public service is a privilege ...

Shimon Peres was 93 years old. Joining me now to help us understand more about Peres' life and the legacy is a man who knew him well, journalist and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Welcome.

The last surviving leader of Israel's founding generation, Shimon Peres was a three-time prime minister, the architect of the country's secretive nuclear program and a winner of the Nobel Peace ...

JERUSALEM — On a cloudless blue morning, an honor guard brought the flag-draped coffin of Shimon Peres to the Mount Herzl national cemetery Friday as 100 world leaders and dignitaries from 70 ...

The speech in which Shimon Peres announced his intention, for a second time, to run for Israel’s presidency, was typical him. As the story goes, the draft was written for him by some of his ...