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Early life. Shimon Peres was born Szymon Perski, on 2 August 1923, [16] in Wiszniew, Poland (now Vishnyeva, Belarus), to Yitzhak (1896–1962) and Sara (1905–1969, née Meltzer) Perski. [7] [17] The family spoke Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian at home, and Peres learned Polish at school.
Jul 4, 2024 · Shimon Peres was a Polish-born Israeli statesman, who served as both prime minister (1984–86 and 1995–96) and president (2007–14) of Israel. He was a key negotiator of the Oslo Accords and a proponent of the two-state solution.
Sep 28, 2016 · Shimon Peres, one of the last surviving pillars of Israel’s founding generation, who did more than anyone to build up his country’s formidable military might, then worked as hard to establish a...
Sep 29, 2016 · Shimon Peres, the former Israeli President, died at ninety-three, a revered elder statesman, but his glory days were as part of a suspect young guard.
Sep 28, 2016 · Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding fathers, died early Wednesday morning at the age of 93. Peres died in his sleep at around 3:00 am local time on Wednesday, Rafi Walden, Peres’s...
Sep 28, 2016 · Shimon Peres, who led Israel as prime minister and president in an enduring six-decade political career built on promoting peace between Arabs and Jews, died Tuesday while being...
Sep 28, 2016 · Israeli statesman and its stalwart defender Shimon Peres, who suffered a stroke two weeks ago, died Wednesday in a Tel Aviv area hospital. He was 93. Over Peres’ six-decade political career, he...
Sep 28, 2016 · Shimon Peres, who served twice as Israel's prime minister and once as president, has died at the age of 93. Mr Peres suffered a stroke two weeks ago.
Sep 28, 2016 · Former Israeli President Shimon Peres, an omnipresent figure of the Israeli state, chief architect of its nuclear weapons program and a driving force behind its interim peace accords with the...
Sep 28, 2016 · Shimon Peres, whose public career spanned the entire history of the state of Israel, reaching the highest of highs (the Oslo Accord) and the lowest of lows (the assassination of his close colleague Yitzhak Rabin) in the mid-1990s, has died. Peres, who suffered a stroke September 13, was 93.
