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Friday, January 21, 2011

Sonia Peres, 1923-2011

Sonia Peres, wife of Israeli President Shimon Peres, died yesterday at the age of 87. She had been married to Peres, also 87, for 67 years. Born in Ukraine, she immigrated at the age of four.

The Ha'aretz obit includes a slideshow of her life, in which she generally stayed out of the limelight.

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