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In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the...

Israeli president, former prime minister, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres is one of the great statesmen of the modern world. Peres is also a fascinating, complex man: a brilliant intellectual who is entirely at home in the corridors of power, an individual revered by the world and yet highly controversial in his own country, at once a hero and a figure of tragedy. Listen as Shimon Peres sits down with his official biographer, Michael Bar-Zohar.

"Shimon Peres, a Pillar of Israel From Founding to the Oslo Accords, Dies at 93" is from the September 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marilyn Berger and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"At Shimon Peres Funeral, a Lineup of U.S. And Israeli Leaders Who Tangled" is from the September 30, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mark Landler and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.