Shimon Peres, who died in Israel aged 93, was probably the last giant of the post-war world’s statesmen.
Though he never wore military uniform or saw combat – facts which handicapped his political career – as Israel’s Minister for Defence he played a major role in building its initially makeshift forces into a first-rate military power. If others were more brilliantly successful, he kept the ship of the Israeli state afloat in hurricanes that threatened to overwhelm …
