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| Shimon Peres dead: Former Israeli president dies after suffering stroke at at 93 | Shimon Peres dead: Former Israeli president dies after suffering stroke at at 93 |
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| Former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres has died. He was 93. | |
| The Sheba Medical Centre in Tel Aviv announced Peres' death at 3.40 am Wednesday morning, according to the official government Israel New Agency. | |
| Peres was hospitalised after suffering a stroke on 13 September. He had made some progress, but his health suddenly deteriorated on Tuesday, interior minister Aryeh Deri told reporters. | |
| A statement from family is forthcoming. | A statement from family is forthcoming. |
| Peres had been involved in Israeli politics for more than half a century. He served seven terms as Israel's president until his 2014 retirement, and had served in the majority of Cabinet positions throughout his career – including three terms as prime minister. | |
| Serving as foreign minister under Yitzhak Rabin, Peres helped conclude the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Peace Accords, for which he won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Rabin and then-Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. | |
| After Rabin's 1995 assasination, Peres became Prime Minister of Israel. | |
| He founded the Peres Centre for Peace, which promoted peace between Israelis and Palestinians. |