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 ...

Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni has given up efforts to form a coalition government and will ask President Shimon Peres for early elections in 90 days, Israeli media reported late Saturday. The snap ...

JERUSALEM (CBSNewYork/AP) --Israel's Foreign Ministry says a long list of world leaders will attend Shimon Peres' funeral on Friday. Spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said Wednesday that President Obama, ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, Israel’s longtime voice for Mideast accord, was mourned at a Friday funeral filled with friends assembled from across his amazing life. The lengthy list of world ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine bumping into Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin on the street. Not actors, but the real Jefferson and Franklin. It would be like bumping into Shimon Peres. To fully grasp his place in ...

'Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres' — about the late president and onetime prime minister of Israel — will be directed by Oscar winner Richard Trank. By Chris Gardner Barack ...

When President Barack Obama visited Jerusalem in 2013, Shimon Peres, then 89 years old and in his fifth decade of public life, might have been expected to forgo the tour of high-tech innovations at ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Shimon Peres, a former Israeli president and prime minister, whose life story mirrored that of the Jewish state and who was celebrated around the world as a Nobel prize-winning ...