Yitzhak Shamir, the hawkish Israeli leader who balked at the idea of trading occupied land for peace with the Palestinians, died on Saturday after a long illness. He was 96. Subscribe to read this ...

In a political job that has been held by some outsize personalities over the years, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was quiet and reserved, almost seeming to shrink from the spotlight.

Yitzhak Shamir, a political hard-liner who served two terms as Israeli prime minster, died Saturday, the prime minister’s office said. Shamir, 96, served as premier from 1983 to 1984, and from 1986 to ...

Yizhak Shamir, the seventh prime minister of Israel, died Saturday at the age of 96. Shamir, who was born in 1915 in Ruzhany, served in Israel’s Shin Bet, and later on as Speaker of the Knesset as ...

Stanley Heller, host of the Internet television show The Struggle and chair of the Middle East Crisis Committee, examines the too-generous obituary for former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir ...

A man once described by the United States as a violent terrorist is now eulogized as a hero in the media. The years between the establishment of the State of Israel and Shamir's ascendancy to the ...

Yitzhak Shamir, who emerged from the militant wing of Israel's pre-state militia and served as prime minister longer than anyone but David Ben-Gurion, promoting a muscular Zionism and expansive ...

Yitzhak Shamir, who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1986 to 1992, has died at the age of 96. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yitzhak Shamir, who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1986 to 1992, has died ...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir died Saturday, the country's prime minister's office said. He was 96. Shamir twice served as Israeli premier: from 1983 to 1984, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a gunman in the smallest and most violent underground faction fighting for a Jewish state who rose to become ...

JERUSALEM — Israeli media are reporting that former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has died. He was 96. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned Shamir’s death Saturday, saying in a statement ...