New bio on Shimon Peres shows intimate look at former president's career
Avi Gil was Peres’s close aide, confidant and friend for some 30 years, from 1988, when Gil returned to Israel after a stint as spokesman at Israel’s embassy in Canada.
POPE FRANCIS is flanked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and president Shimon Peres at a ceremony in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 2014(photo credit: BAZ RATNER/REUTERS)ByHERB KEINON
