JERUSALEM, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Israel’s elder statesman and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres suffered a stroke on Tuesday and doctors put him in an induced coma in hospital, his office said in a statement. He later served as president, a largely ceremonial role in Israel, from 2007-2014, before leaving government. “Shimon, we love you and the entire nation is wishing for your recovery,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. When a far-right Jewish Israeli opposed to the peace deal shot dead Rabin in November 1995, Peres became prime minister. Polls showed him way ahead of rightist Likud leader Netanyahu in a campaign for the 1996 election.

Source: Huffington Post September 13, 2016 17:29 UTC