THE WEEK

1. World leaders gather in mourning for Shimon Peres

World leaders, including President Obama and former President Bill Clinton, gathered in Jerusalem on Friday for the funeral of former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Clinton, who hosted Peres for the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1993, called the 93-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Israel’s “biggest dreamer.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Peres “a great man of Israel.” Obama noted that the presence of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the funeral was “a gesture and a reminder of the unfinished business of peace.” With Peres’ passing, Obama said, “The last of the founding generation is now gone,” and the work is “in the hands of Israel’s next generation and its friends.”

Source: The New York Times, CNN

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