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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.

  3. 5 days ago · 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.

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  4. Shimon Peres (Labour), Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born in Poland in 1923 and immigrated with his family as a child. He studied at the Ben Shemen Agricultural School, and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Alumot in the Jordan Valley.

  5. Sep 28, 2016 · Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres was in charge of the negotiations on the Israeli side, and in the autumn of 1994 he shared the Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Shimon Peres was born in Belorussia.

  6. Sep 28, 2016 · Shimon Peres, one of the last surviving pillars of Israels founding generation, who did more than anyone to build up his country’s formidable military might, then worked as hard to establish...

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  7. Sep 28, 2016 · Shimon Peres was a leading figure on Israel's political landscape for as long as the Jewish state itself has existed in modern times. He held almost every public office, including...

  8. Sep 28, 2016 · Shimon Peres, the Israeli leader and Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker who coined the phrase “the new Middle East”, has died at the age of 93 with the region still sadly reminiscent of...