JERUSALEM: Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid tribute to Nelson Mandela Friday as a champion of peace despite his tireless advocacy of the Palestinian cause.

Peres said the South Africa liberation leader was "above all a builder of bridges of peace and dialogue who paid a heavy personal price for his struggle in the years he spent in prison and fighting for his people."

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