Yitzak Shamir (born 1914) was prime minister of Israel (1983-84, 1987-88), leader of the Likud Party and vice premier and minister of foreign affairs in the National Unity government (1984-86).Yitzak ...
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A brief glance at the life and accomplishments of Shimon Peres:BORN: Poland, Aug. 2, 1923.POLITICAL HISTORY: Peres became director of the Defense Ministry at the age of 25 and spearheaded the devel...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - Israel is set to receive its ninth president
Sunday evening, when elder statesman and Nobel Peace Laureate Shimon
Peres is sworn in at a ceremony at the Kn...
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startling insight on the assasination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 2005, passed along by the great columnist MJ Rosenberg:
In 1997, President Bill Clinton told me that he believed ...
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Elder statesman Shimon Peres on Wednesday declared his candidacy for the ceremonial post of Israeli president, telling supporters, "This may be my last chance to serve the country."His latest campa...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - Israel is set to receive its ninth president
Sunday evening, when elder statesman and Nobel Peace Laureate Shimon
Peres is sworn in at a ceremony at the Kn...
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A look at Mideast peace conferences with U.S. involvement:___Sept. 5-17, 1978, Camp David, Thurmont, Md.:_ Participants: President Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister ...
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Ehud
Olmert
became
Israel
's 12th prime minister on April 14, 2006, 100 days after his predecessor,
Ariel
Sharon
, suffered a massive brain hemorrhage that left him in a coma.
Olmert
had tak...
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Shimon Peres helped build the Israeli army, repeatedly served as prime minister in difficult times and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts at ending the conflict with the Palestinians.At 83, ...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - Shimon Peres, Israel's elder statesman and Nobel
Peace Laureate, was sworn in Sunday evening as the country's ninth
president during a ceremony at the Knes...
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First there's yesterday's Washington Post Magazine piece on the lobby. It explored the standoff between Bush and Yitzhak Shamir in 1992, when Bush tried to stop Israel from building more settlement...
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Yitzchak Shamir
Brief bio of Shimon Peres
