“The Middle East has lost a friend of peace,” President Clinton said after Leah Rabin, the widow of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and a leading proponent of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, died of cancer at 72. Leah Rabin stood by her husband throughout his military and political career, and she championed his peace policies after his assassination five years ago.
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