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May 2021

  • At this juncture, it feels particularly bleak ... a scene from The Human Factor.

    The Human Factor review – bearhugs and murder: Bill Clinton’s Middle East peace deal in gripping detail

    This rigorous and nailbiting documentary examines the US president’s failure to facilitate an agreement between Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s

November 2020

  • Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks to a crowd of more than 100,000 Israelis at Tel Aviv’s municipal square, 4 November 1995.

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    6 November 1995: prime minister shot at close range by 25-year-old Yigal Amir who told police ‘I acted alone on God’s orders and I have no regrets’

October 2020

  • Security personnel bundle Yitzhak Rabin into his car after he was shot at a peace rally in Tel Aviv on 4 November 1995

    The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: ‘He never knew it was one of his people who shot him in the back’

    Twenty-five years after the death of the Israeli prime minister, those who were there recall the night two bullets altered the destiny of two nations

November 2016

  • Fidel Castro at May Day Parade<br>HAVANA, CUBA - MAY 1:  Fidel Castro observes the May Day parade at the Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba May 1, 1998.  (Photo by Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)

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    Fidel Castro’s shrinking guest list and other controversial funerals

    The list of western leaders not attending the Cuban leader’s send-off is looking more notable than those who will. But his is not the only ceremony to spark controversy …

October 2016

  • US President Obama gestures to former US President Bill Clinton to hurry up as they to prepare to leave Israel after attending the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Perez

    'Bill, let's go!': Obama tells former president Clinton to hurry up – video

    Barack Obama remonstrates with Bill Clinton to hurry up and get on board Air Force One as it waits to take off after the pair attended Shimon Peres’s funeral in Jerusalem.
  • David Grossman

    Shimon Peres did great things, but he failed in what mattered to him the most

    David Grossman
  • US President Barack Obama delivers a speech during the funeral of former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery on September 30, 2016.
World leaders including US President Barack Obama and Prince Charles were bidding farewell to Peres as his funeral began under massive security.

 / AFP PHOTO / Thomas COEXTHOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images

    Shimon Peres' funeral attended by world leaders – video

  • U.S. President Barack Obama touches the casket of former Israeli President Shimon Peres after speaking at his funeral at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, September 30, 2016.   REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Shimon Peres funeral: Obama evokes ‘unfinished business’ of peace talks

  • A portrait of Shimon Peres at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem

    Shimon Peres funeral – in pictures

  • Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas in 2013

    Mahmoud Abbas plans to attend Shimon Peres funeral in Jerusalem

    Some Fatah members oppose president’s decision aimed at sending message that ‘Palestinians are for peace’
  • Barack Obama and Prince Charles to attend Shimon Peres funeral

  • President Barack Obama speaks as he welcomes NASCAR driver Kyle Busch<br>U.S. President Barack Obama speaks as he welcomes NASCAR driver Kyle Busch and his team to honor the Sprint Cup Series championship at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

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  • Shimon Peres poses for a portrait at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa, Israel

    What do you think Shimon Peres' legacy will be?

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on May 26, 2013 shows Israel's late former president Shimon Peres speaks during the opening session of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa on May 26, 2013 at the King Hussein Convention Centre on the shores of the Dead Sea, 55 kilometres south of Amman. 
Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on September 28, 2016, his personal doctor told AFP, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke.
The 93-year-old died at around 3:00 am (0000 GMT), Rafi Walden, who is also Peres's son-in-law, told AFP. / AFP PHOTO / Khalil MAZRAAWIKHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images

    As a peacemaker, Shimon Peres never won over the Israeli public

    Anshel Pfeffer
  • Shimon Peres, Nobel winner and giant of Israeli politics, dies at 93

  • Shimon Peres dies: global reaction to former Israeli leader's death – latest

  • Son of Shimon Peres announces death of 'devoted' former Israeli leader – video

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  • Former Israeli president Shimon Peres – a life in pictures

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    Former Israeli president Shimon Peres 'fighting for his life'

    Key architect of Oslo peace accords and Nobel peace prize winner had suffered a massive stroke two weeks ago
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