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A former Israeli Prime Minister and President, Shimon Peres has been reported dead at the age of 93, after two weeks of suffering a stroke.
Initially the condition improved, before it suddenly took a turn for the worst and he eventually died on Wednesday, after a long battle with his health.
Mr Peres was one of the last of a generation of Israeli politicians, present at the new nation’s birth in 1948.
He served twice as the country’s prime minister and once as president.
He also won the Nobel peace prize in 1994 for his role in negotiating peace accords with the Palestinians a year earlier.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement calling Peres’s death “a great loss to humanity and peace in the region”.
However, it was not clear if he would attend the funeral, which will take place on Friday at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl cemetery, in a section dedicated to “Great Leaders of the Nation”.
Among those expected to attend the funeral are: President Obama, Britain’s Prince Charles and U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton and her husband and former President Bill Clinton, the Israeli radio reported.
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