Shimon Peres to assume presidency
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Former Prime Minister Shimon Peres is to be formally inaugurated as the president of Israel.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Shimon Peres, chairman of the opposition Labor Party, said Israel should have early elections after the ruling Likud Party voted against coalition talks.
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JERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinians yesterday agreed on how to hold next month&#39;s election to replace Yasser Arafat â-he latest evidence of progress toward peace in the post-Arafat era.
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JERUSALEM - Israel will not interfere in the selection of an eventual successor to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who is currently undergoing medical tests in France for a mystery illness, Israeli President Moshe Katzav said in comments broadcast on
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  reached a deal with Shimon Peres on Thursday to name the  opposition leader his senior deputy, clearing a key obstacle to  a unity government able to abandon the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Israel&#39;s newly-elected president Shimon Peres is set to visit Poland for a ceremony at the site of a new museum dedicated to 800 years of Jewish history in the country, organisers said Thursday.
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Comment is free: Shimon Peres: As president I intend to serve with courage and kindness, and to pursue peace within Israel and with our neighbours.
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Israel's President Shimon Peres said on Sunday any peace deal with the Palestinians should be put to a vote in the Jewish state either through a referendum or elections.
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Israel&#39;s opposition leader, Shimon Peres, today called for early elections that would effectively rule his party out of joining a coalition to prop up the prime minister, Ariel Sharon.
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The US And Israel Are pinning their hopes on former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat as leader of the Palestinians.
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JERUSALEM, June 13 -- Shimon Peres, the former prime minister, Nobel laureate, and perennial loser of elections, handily won Israel's presidency Wednesday in his second bid for what will likely be his last official position in public life.
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Israel will hold talks with the Palestinian president soon, Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Friday.
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Mahmoud Abbas's inauguration to  succeed Yasser Arafat on Saturday will be overshadowed by  Israel's decision to cut ties with the new Palestinian  president after a militant attack that killed six Israelis.
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Coalition negotiating teams of the Likud and Labor Parties agreed today that Peres will become Israel&#39;s first-ever &quot;Associate Prime Minister&quot; and the senior minister in the government after the Prime Minister.
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Vice Premier Shimon Peres announced his candidacy Wednesday for president of Israel
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Reformist former Palestinian Authority prime minister Abu Mazen will temporarily take over chairman Yasser Arafat&#39;s authority, Palestinian sources said.
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It will be a long time before a new Palestinian leader commands the public admiration and political power that Yasser Arafat did. This power enabled him to make concessions that no previous Palestinian leader would have considered.