Peres won Nobel Prize but peace stayed elusive

The Israeli elder statesman died on Wednesday at age 93 following a stroke

Shimon Peres, who died on Wednesday at the age of 93, never realized his vision of a new Middle East built upon a 1993 interim peace deal he helped shape with the Palestinians.

But Israel's elder statesman won world acclaim and a Nobel Prize as a symbol of hope in a region long plagued by war fueled by deep religious and political divisions.