Formerc Israeli President Dies_资讯
ezer weizman pioneered contacts with palestinian and other arab leaders.[pjoto]
former israeli president ezer weizman, a flying ace and crack military commander who built up the nation’s air force and helped bring about the jewish state’s first peace treaty with an arab country, has died, israeli officials said sunday. he was 80.
weizman was president between 1993-2000. in three decades in political life, he made a highly public transition from hawk to dove, saying the jews had to learn to "share this part of the world" with the arabs.
the maariv daily newspaper said weizman died sunday evening with his family at his bedside.
as defense minister in 1979, he was instrumental in negotiating israel’s peace treaty with egypt. weizman, a political moderate who pioneered contacts with palestinian leaders, later resigned from then-prime minister menachem begin’s cabinet, complaining about his strict interpretation of interim peace accords with egypt about the palestinians. ariel sharon, now israel’s premier, replaced weizman.
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former israeli president ezer weizman, a flying ace and crack military commander who built up the nation’s air force and helped bring about the jewish state’s first peace treaty with an arab country, has died, israeli officials said sunday. he was 80.
weizman was president between 1993-2000. in three decades in political life, he made a highly public transition from hawk to dove, saying the jews had to learn to "share this part of the world" with the arabs.
the maariv daily newspaper said weizman died sunday evening with his family at his bedside.
as defense minister in 1979, he was instrumental in negotiating israel’s peace treaty with egypt. weizman, a political moderate who pioneered contacts with palestinian leaders, later resigned from then-prime minister menachem begin’s cabinet, complaining about his strict interpretation of interim peace accords with egypt about the palestinians. ariel sharon, now israel’s premier, replaced weizman.
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