Shimon Peres, who served as prime minister of Israel twice and as the country's ninth president passed away at the age of 93, just two weeks after suffering a stroke. He was on a respirator in the hospital and his condition detoriorated. Peres was one of the architects of the Oslo peace accords which led to him winning the Nobel peace prize. He was the last surviving figure associated with Israel's modern founding and went from being deeply divisive to extremely popular later in his political career.
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