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1. World leaders gather in mourning for Shimon Peres

World leaders, including President Obama and former President Bill Clinton, gathered in Jerusalem on Friday for the funeral of former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Clinton, who hosted Peres for the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1993, called the 93-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Israel's "biggest dreamer." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Peres "a great man of Israel." Obama noted that the presence of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the funeral was "a gesture and a reminder of the unfinished business of peace." With Peres' passing, Obama said, "The last of the founding generation is now gone," and the work is "in the hands of Israel's next generation and its friends."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.