Published: 5 April 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
In an interview broadcast on Israel’s Channel 10 news on Tuesday, the former president, who has not made a secret of his difficult relationship with Netanyahu, admitted intervening on Peres’s behalf in the elections that were held six months after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin because, he said, he saw Peres as more supportive of the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort.
FULL STORY Bill Clinton admits he tried to help Peres beat Netanyahu in 1996 elections (Times of Israel)
Photo: Prime Minister Shimon Peres looks on as President Bill Clinton answers a question at the White House on April 30, 1996 (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson)
