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 ...

JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to territory and never trust an Arab regime, has died. He was 96.

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 ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Yitzhak Shamir, the hawkish Israeli leader who two decades ago first balked at U.S. calls to trade occupied land for Middle East peace, died on Saturday after a long illness. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

(AP) JERUSALEM - Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to territory and never trust an Arab regime, has died. He was 96 ...

JERUSALEM — Yitzhak Shamir was a fighter for the Jews long before Israel’s creation, an underground leader who led militias against the Arabs and British. He made no apologies and no compromises — not ...

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 ...

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 ...