Shulamit Shamir | Ex-premier's wife, 88

Shulamit Shamir, 88, wife of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, died Friday in Tel Aviv.

Ms. Shamir was born in Bulgaria in 1923. She was arrested upon arriving in what was then British-ruled Palestine because of a limitation on Jewish immigration and was sent to a detention camp. There she met Yitzhak Shamir, detained for his activities in a Jewish underground group. They married in 1944.

Yitzhak Shamir, 95, served as prime minister from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992. - AP