Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres asked the Israeli Embassy in Paris to check the possibility of legal action against a French newspaper that said he wanted Yasser Arafat to die. According to L’Express, Peres said that Palestinian Authority President “Yasser Arafat needs to die, just not by gunshots fired by Israel,” Ha’aretz reported.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
