JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres has seen a serious deterioration in his health and was “fighting for his life” Tuesday after suffering a stroke earlier this month, a source close to him said.
“The president is fighting for his life,” the source told AFP on condition of anonymity. “His health position is very, very difficult. His doctors are worried about his health.”
Peres, 93, has held nearly every major office in Israel, serving twice as prime minister. He was president, a mostly ceremonial role, from 2007 to 2014.
He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for his role in negotiating the Oslo Accords, which envisioned an independent Palestinian state.
The former hawk turned dove is widely respected both in Israel and abroad.
He suffered a stroke on September 13 and has been hospitalised since then.
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