Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was prime minister of Israel on three separate occasions before becoming the country's president, died Wednesday. He was 93.
An official confirmed to Fox News that Peres had died at a Tel Aviv hospital two weeks after suffering a stroke. Peres' family was expected to make a statement later in the day.
Peres' family members had been summoned to Sheba Medical Center to say their goodbyes as the elder statesman's condition deteriorated throughout the day Tuesday.
In an unprecedented seven-decade political career, Peres filled almost every position in Israeli public life and was credited with leading the country through some of its most defining moments, from creating its nuclear arsenal in the 1950s, to disentangling its troops from Lebanon and rescuing its economy from triple-digit inflation in the 1980s, to guiding a skeptical nation into peace talks with the Palestinians in the 1990s.
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