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Shimon Peres (About this sound listen ; Hebrew: ????? ????; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923) is a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and he was a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President.He held several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after Israel’s War of Independence. His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952, and Director-General from 1953 until 1959. During his career, he has represented five political parties in the Knesset: Mapai, Rafi, the Alignment, Labor and Kadima, and has led Alignment and Labor. Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that he participated in as Israeli Foreign Minister, producing the Oslo Accords.Peres was nominated in early 2007 by Kadima to run in that year’s presidential election, and was elected by the Knesset to the presidency on 13 June 2007 and sworn into office on 15 July 2007 for a seven-year term. He is the first former Prime Minister to be elected President of Israel.In 2008, Peres was honorarily appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George. IMDB Wikipedia $10 million 1923 1923-8-16 August 16 Belarus Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (2008) Chemi Editorial Department Harvard University Leo Nowogródzkie Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus (2014) Peace One Day (2004) Poland [now Valozhyn Shimon Peres Net Worth Sonya Gelman Szymon Perski Wolozyn Yitzhak Rabin: Warrior/Peacemaker (1999) Yoni Zvia

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• Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time because, if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?
• I cannot recall anything a terrorist achieved but killing people.
• [ on the greatest obstacle to peace] Disagreement is produced by its own suspicion, hatred, mistrust. The greatest problem today is mistrust. Mistrust produces terror, and each side blames the other side. So it’s a machine that works for itself, and we have to bring it down. People will say it’s impossible, but that is nonsense.
• I think that peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before Facebook.
• When we started sixty-four years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim. Israel has it’s attractions. It’s the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody’s engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know?
• Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.
• If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem but a fact that must be coped with.
• The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
• Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
• When you win a war, your people are united and applaud you. When you make peace, your people are doubtful and resentful.

Szymon Perski Important Facts

• Awarded a Congressional Gold Medal (9 June 2014, Public Law 113-114; 128 Stat. 1178).
• Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on 29 May 2012.
• Was elected President of Israel on June 13, 2007. He is the first former Israeli Prime Minister to become Israeli President.
• Has three children: Tzvia, Yoni and Chemi.
• Being the last Prime Minister of Israel to be born in the diaspora, his family emigrated from Poland.
• Was in the running for the presidency of Israel in the 2000 election, but Likud candidate Moshe Katsav won the seven-year term.
• Prime Minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and 1995 to 1996.
• Authored 10 books, including: “Battling for Peace” (1995), “Entebbe Diary” (1991), “The New Middle East” (1993), “David’s Sling” (1970) & “The Next Step” (1965).
• Peres also served as Deputy Minister of Defense, Chairman of the Labour Party, Vice President of the Socialist International & as Temporary Speaker of the Knesset.
• Held the following positions in Israeli government: Minister of Transportation, Minister of Cummunication, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Minister without Portfolio, Minister of Defense, Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Religious Affairs, Minister Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance, Minister of Information & Minister of Regional Cooperation.
• Member of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, for five different parties since 1959.
• Awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, together with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
• He is a relative of American actress Lauren Bacall. Both had the same original last name – Perske. The two are not first cousins, however, as has been commonly reported, and in a 2014 interview shortly after Bacall’s death, Peres stated that he was unsure of their exact connection.

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