Yitzhak Shamir, who served as Israel's seventh prime minister, has died. He was 96 years old.
Shamir, a member of the Likud party, served as prime minister twice, from October 10, 1983 to September 13, 1984, and again from October 20, 1986 to July 13, 1992.
He had also served as foreign minister and defense minister.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanayhau mourned Shamir's passing, saying that he had "led Israel with a deep loyalty to the nation."
Shamir was born in what is now Poland in 1915. He moved to Palestine in 1935.
