It is with great sadness that the Sun has received the news of the death of Israel’s seventh prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir. He deserved a great deal more regard than he was accorded in the bien ...

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 ...

FILE- This his May, 1991 file photo shows former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Jerusalem. Israeli media are reporting that former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has died. He was 96. Israeli ...

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 ...

Which is sadder I’m not sure — that Yitzhak Shamir died or that people didn’t really know that he was still alive. For Shamir certainly was Israel’s least appreciated Prime Minister amid presiding ...

The moment Yitzhak Shamir dreaded had arrived: President Hafez Assad of Syria agreed to U.S. proposals for a Mideast peace conference. His enemy's concession confronted the Israeli prime minister with ...

In a historic vote Thursday night, parliament expressed no-confidence in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud government due to his refusal to approve U.S.-backed conditions for Israeli-Palestinian ...

The 25-member Cabinet presented to the Knesset Monday by incoming Premier Yitzhak Shamir differs only slightly from the outgoing national unity Cabinet headed by Simon Peres. It consists of 10 Likud ...

Government officials here have reacted to Palestinian euphoria over the peace conference in Madrid by pounding home that Israel will not make territorial concessions or allow a Palestinian state.

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

JERUSALEM (AP) -- 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 ...