President Shimon Peres of Israel

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Shimon Peres was born on 2 August 1923 in Wiszniew, Poland (now Višnieva, Belarus), to Yitzhak (1896-1962) and Sara (b.
Peres has a younger brother, Gershon.
Peres was one of the founders of Kibbutz Alumot.
In 1945, Shimon Peres married Sonya (née Gelman), who has preferred to remain outside the public eye throughout his political career.
Peres has 8 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Sonya Peres was unable to attend Shimon's inauguration ceremony due to ill health.
In 1947, Peres joined the Haganah, the predecessor of the Israel Defense Forces.
Peres was first elected to the Knesset in the 1959 elections, as a member of the Mapai party.
In 1969, Peres was appointed Minister of Immigrant Absorption and in 1970 became Minister of Transportation and Communications.
Peres remained active in politics, however, serving as Rabin's foreign minister from 1992 and without Rabin's knowledge, began illegal secret negotiations with Yasser Arafat's PLO organization.
One of Peretz's main charges against Peres was that he neglected socio-economic affairs as a member of the Sharon government, and did not fulfill his statement that Labor had joined the coalition with only the intent of seeing through the Gaza Withdrawal.
Peres had previously announced his intention not to run in the March elections.
Following Kadima's win in the election, Peres was given the role of Vice Prime Minister and Minister for the Development of the Negev, Galilee and Regional Economy.
On 13 June 2007, Peres was elected President of the State of Israel by the Knesset.
Peres was sworn in as President on 15 July, 2007.
However, Peres supported Ariel Sharon's military policy of operating the Israeli Defence Forces to thwart suicide bombings.
For example, to placate Turkey, the only significant Muslim country in the region that is friendly towards Israel, Peres is reported to have explicitly denied the Armenian genocide.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry, in addressing the controversy these remarks had created, later suggested that Peres had been misquoted, and that he "absolutely did not say, as the Turkish news agency alleged, 'What the Armenians underwent was a tragedy, not a genocide.
President Shimon Peres celebrates 85th birthday.
As WorldNetDaily reported, five thoroughly researched books charge the General Security Services of Israel (Shabak) organized Rabin's murder and three of the books contend that Shimon Peres was the mastermind of the assassination.
All in all," notes Bainerman, "the case against Peres is circumstantial, but the weight of the evidence is impressive enough to start legal proceedings against him.
And shouldn't reporters question why the Labor informers who leaked the news before the Labor primary (that stooge Yigal Amir shot blanks from a sterile area and Shimon Peres was part of the staged event) didn't follow through with any demands for a new investigation and failed to insist Israel must reopen the Rabin File? Could this dereliction of duty, this possible criminal neglect to pursue the matter backfire on those who would indict "the man who would be king?" (especially since it's believed the Vatican promises Peres a place in the "New Jerusalem" under "international control.
Rabin's blood cries out for justice! If indeed Shimon Peres came to power over Rabin's dead body, as publicly charged by David Rutstein and Barry Chamish without getting sued, it's past time for Israel to clean up their act and let Zion be redeemed with justice.
Peres has been a politician who have sought peace second to security for Israel.
as Deputy Minister of Defense from 1959-1965.
Peres was elected chairman of the Labour Alignment.
and a daughter - and six grandchildren.
Israel's Labor Party, serving as Vice Prime Minister.
Israeli President Shimon Peres has declared that Israel will not make peace with Syria unless Damascus gives up its bases in Lebanon.
Israeli president Shimon Peres praises the Saudi King Abdullah for his Middle East peace initiative aimed at ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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JERUSALEM Israeli presidential candidate, former prime minister and long-time parliament member Shimon Peres is accused of falsifying his official biography on Israel's Knesset website to claim he served in the military and temporarily headed the Jewish state's navy.
But Yitzhaki said Peres was never the chief of the navy.
I was basically an ignorant young man," Peres said during the interview.
Peres is currently trying to succeed the president of Israel, Moshe Katzav, who has been embroiled in a rape scandal the past few months.
Peres has been trying to pass a law that would change the process to be open-ballot in a move widely seen as a scheme to get himself elected.
Peres is believed to have lost the previous presidential elections, held in 2000, because a number of Knesset members who publicly stated that they would vote for him voted for Katsav instead.
Nusbaum said Peres is not on the lecture circuit, butthat he speaks at select locations by invitation only.
Elana Levine '98, vice president of programming for theYoung Israel House, said she hopes the entire Cornell community goesto hear what Peres has to say.
Peres was scheduled to speak at Cornell next Wednesday,but University officials explained that a variety of circumstances ledto his decision to cancel.
More about PeresPolitically active from the age of 20, after a number of years in KibbutzGeva and Kibbutz Alumot, Shimon Peres was elected Secretary of the Laboryouth movement in 1943.
In 1953, at the age of 29, Shimon Peres was appointed by Prime MinisterDavid Ben-Gurion to the post of Director General of the Ministry of Defense,a position he held until 1959.
In1974 after a period as Minister of Information, Shimon Peres was appointedMinister of Defense, a position he held until 1977.
After the elections in 1977, which placed the Labor Party in opposition,Shimon Peres was elected Chairman of the Labor Party, a post he held until1992.
In July 1992, after the election of the new Labor Government, ShimonPeres was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.
On November 5, 1995, following the assassination of Prime Minister YitzhakRabin, Shimon Peres was appointed as acting Prime Minister and on November22, 1995, after being approved by the Knesset, he was sworn in as PrimeMinister and Minister of Defense.
Shimon Peres has authored ten books including The Next Step(1965); David's Sling (1970); Entebbe Diary (1991);The New Middle East (1993); and Battling for Peace(1995.
Peres was narrowly defeated by Netanyahu in the new-style premiership election of May 1996 and consequently failed to form a Labour government for a fifth and final time.
Shimon Peres was born to Yitzhak and Sara Persky in 1923 in Volozhin, Poland.
Under Ben-Gurion's patronage Peres came to assume increasingly more responsible positions after Israel became an independent nation in 1948.
Peres is remembered for having played a key role in Israeli national security.
Peres was often allowed to exercise authority beyond his job description that earned him both the criticism and envy of other ministers.
Despite a strained personal and working relationship, Peres was actively involved in the separation of forces agreements with Syria and Egypt during the "shuttle diplomacy" of US.
A tireless campaigner, widely-read, and an experienced parliamentarian, Peres was a sharp critic of Begin government policies.
In 1969 Peres was appointed minister of immigrant absorption; from 1970 to 1974 he served as transport minister in the government of Golda Meir.
In 1974 Peres was named defense minister, an office he held until the 1977 election, and he served briefly as acting prime minister in 1977 after Rabin's resignation.
After the March 2001 election in which Barak lost to the Likud's Ariel Sharon, Peres was appointed minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister in the national unity government led by Sharon.
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.
Peres was nominated in early 2007 by Kadima to run in that year's presidential election, being elected by the Knesset for the presidency on 13 June 2007 and sworn into office on 15 July 2007 for a seven-year term.
country,” said CCSU President Richard L.
Peres has written ten books, including his memoir, Battling for Peace.
Peres lives in Israel and makes frequent trips to the United States.
Shimon Peres was a participant or observer in the following events: May 3, 1985: Neoconservative NSC Consultant Tells Israel that US Supports Arms Sales to IransEL('1626004942-60430','60430') Michael Ledeen, a neoconservative author who consults for the National Security Council (see Late 1984), meets informally with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
Peres was befuddled by Netanyahus slick, US-style attack campaign and his ability to secure financial and other support among American Christian fundamentalists.
After the 1999 election of Ehud Barak as prime minister, Peres was named minister of regional cooperation.
a member until elected President in June 2007.
hegemony - Peres was elected party chairman, a post he held until 1992.
appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.
has a daughter (Zvia), two sons (Yonathan and Nehemia) and six grandchildren.
Peres was born in Byelorussia in 1923 and immigrated to Palestine with his family at the age of eleven.
Shimon Peres has been closely associated with the development of defense capabilities.
In 1959 Peres was elected a Member of Knesset and served until his election as President in June 2007.
In 1969 Peres was appointed Minister of Immigrants Absorption; from 1970 to 1974 he served as Minister of Transportation and Communications; and during 1974 he was Minister of Information.
Following the defeat of the Labor party in the 1977 general elections - after thirty years of political hegemony - Shimon Peres was elected party chairman, a post he held until 1992.
Peres was also instrumental in the withdrawal of troops from Lebanon and the establishment of a narrow security zone in southern Lebanon.
After the return to power of the Labor party as a result of the 1992 elections, Shimon Peres was once again appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He is married, and has three children,eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Shimon Peres was born in 1923 in Belorussia and immigrated with his family in 1934.
Peres is a former Vice-President of the Socialist International; former chairman of the Labor Party and an architect of the 1994 Oslo Accords, for which he was awarded (with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat) the Nobel Peace Prize.
In Israel's War of Independence (1947-48), Peres was responsible for arms purchases and recruitment, and in 1948 was appointed head of the naval services.
Peres was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Defense (1952-53), and later Director-General (1953-59.
In 1977, Peres was elected chairman of the Labor Alignment.
In the following National Unity Government (1988-90), Peres was Vice Premier and Minister of Finance.
In July 1992, Peres was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Peres has published books in Hebrew, French and English on many subjects.
Geula High School (Gymnasium) where he became a member of the Hanoar Haoved youth movement.
as an organizer for the Hanoar Haoved youth movement in Tel-Aviv.
industries, and he is also known as the father of the Israeli hi-tech industries.
Peres was a close associate of Ben-Gurion and rose in the Mapai Party young guard.
actively encouraged settlement of the occupied West Bank.
In his memoirs, Rabin famously wrote that Peres is an incorrigible subversive.
involved in the separation of forces agreements with Syria and Egypt following the Yom Kippur war.
stood side by side on a podium at a giant peace rally in the main square of Tel Aviv, now called Rabin square.
election in the Israeli Knesset to Moshe Katzav.
Shimon PeresShimon Peres was born in August 1923 in Poland.
After a number of years in Kibbutz Geva and Kibbutz Alumot, Peres was elected Secretary of the Labor youth movement in 1943.
In 1947, Peres was conscripted into the Haganah Defense Forces and assigned responsibility for manpower and arms purchases, continuing this post during the early part of Israel's War of Independence.
A year later, Peres was appointed head of Israel's navy and at the war's end assumed the position of Director of the Defense Ministry's procurement delegation in the United States.
In 1953, at the age of 29, Peres was appointed by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to the post of Director General of the Defense Ministry, a position he held until 1959.
In 1959, Peres was elected to Israel's parliament, the Knesset, and has remained a member ever since.
In 1974, after a period as Information Minister, Peres was appointed Defense Minister, a position he held until 1977.
Prior to the elections in 1977, which placed the The Labor Party in opposition, Peres was elected Chairman of the The Labor Party, a post he held until 1992.
In July 1992, after the election of the new Labor Government, Peres was appointed Foreign Minister.
On November 5, 1995, following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Peres was appointed acting Prime Minister and on November 22, 1995, after being approved by the Knesset, he was sworn in as Prime Minister and Defense Minister.
Shimon Peres has authored ten books, including The Next Step (1965); David's Sling; Entebbe Diary (1991), The New Middled East, For the Future of Israel andBattling for Peace: A Memoir.
A hawk who helped build Israel's military-industrial complex, in recent years Peres has been a leader in the search for peace with the Palestinians.
As part of Israel's 60th-anniversary celebrations, Peres is hosting a conference this week titled "Facing Tomorrow," which will be attended by President George W.
Shimon Peres is married to Sonia who has never identified with his political ambitions.
This photograph of Shimon Peres was taken the day before he lost the elections for the office of Prime minister by the narrowest of margins (to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Shimon Peres was born in Belarus in 1923, and immigrated to Israel at the age of 11.
In 1947, upon David Ben-Gurion's request, Peres was recruited by the Haganah (pre-independence military organization), and he assumed a pivotal role in many state-related missions.
As Director General, Peres was a crucial player in the development of Israel's military and aerial industries.
In 1959, Shimon Peres was elected to the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) and served as Deputy Minister of Defence under then Prime Minister and Minister of Defence David Ben-Gurion.
In 1974, Peres was appointed Minister of Defence, a position that he held until 1977.
Peres was also involved in Israel's negotiations with Jordan, which commenced immediately following the signing of the Oslo Accords, and were officially signed in October 1994.
In July 1999, Peres was appointed Minister of Regional Cooperation in Ehud Barak’s government.
Peres was re-elected as Chairman of the Labor Party in June 2003, and in that capacity, he served as Head of the Opposition.
Since Kadima's victory in the elections of 2006, Peres has served as Vice Prime Minister.
In June 2007, Shimon Peres was elected to serve as the 9th President of the State of Israel.
Shimon Peres has authored numerous books and articles.
Peres was first elected to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in 1959.
Instrumental in the formation of the Labor party (1968), Peres was minister of defense from 1974 to 1977, when he was elected party chairman.
Barak as prime minister, Peres was named minister of regional cooperation.
Elder statesman Shimon Peres was elected Israel's ninth president on Wednesday, in a race enlivened by his campaign to cap his six-decade political career with a term in the president's mansion, but marred by rape allegations against the sitting president.
Peres had been seen as a shoo-in to win the post in 2000 only to lose in a stunning upset to the now-disgraced Moshe Katsav, a political backbencher with the blessing of a prominent rabbi.
A top aide to Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, Peres was elected to parliament in 1959, then held a series of top posts, including the premiership, as well as minister of defense, finance and foreign affairs.
If anything, Peres is widely seen as having the gravitas the position demands.
Peres received an unexpectedly high 58 votes in the first round of voting, as against 37 for Rivlin and 21 for Avital.
Peres found himself unexpectedly replacing the re-elected Rabin once again after Rabin was gunned down by a political assassin in 1995.
Peres has dedicated his entire adult life to the formation of his country and the realization of peace between Israel and her neighbors.
Shimon Peres was born in Poland in 1923 and immigrated to Israel with his family as a child.
Peres was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Defense in 1952 and served as its Director-General between 1953-1959.
In March 2001, Peres was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister in the National Unity government headed by Ariel Sharon, serving until October 2002 when he resigned together with the other Labor ministers.
Shimon Peres has authored many books including: The Next Step, David's Sling, And Now Tomorrow, From These Men, Entebbe Diary, The New Middle East, Battling for Peace, and his most recent work The Imaginary Voyage.
Shimon Peres is married to Sonya (nee Gelman); they have two sons and a daughter - and six grandchildren.
Peres was in charge of arms acquisition for the new Jewish State, and in 1949 he went to the US as head of the Defense Ministry delegation.
There, in New York, Peres was introduced for the first time in his life to his cousin of similar age, one Betty Joan Perski, who had been born in the New World already.
Utterly mesmerized by the incredible information which he had suddenly become privy to, Peres was told in no uncertain terms that if his genealogy could be proven beyond doubt, then he will have no choice but to commence rebuilding the Jerusalem throne - this being one of the foremost missions of the Priory.
At the time Peres was the Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister.
He finally achieved this in 2007, reaching the highest pinnacle of power in the country, and occupying a post where underhanded coalition politics and back-stabbing party intrigue will no longer concern him.
Curiously enough, Peres received one of the many congratulatory letters for his inauguration from Pope Benedict XVI - an unprecedented step in the relationship between Israel and the Vatican.
Name at birth: Shimon PerskyElected Israel's ninth president in 2007, Shimon Peres was three times prime minister of Israel: briefly in 1977, from 1984-86, and again from 1995-96.
Peres has served in nearly all the top civilian posts in Israel and, after a string of election failures, was elected to the presidency in June of 2007, at the age of 83.
In 1969, Peres was appointed Minister of Absorption and in 1970, he became the Minister of Transportation and Communications.
However Peres remained active in politics, serving as Rabin's foreign minister from 1992 and briefly succeeding him after his assassination in 1995.
Peres was defeated by Benjamin Netanyahu in the first direct elections for Prime Minister in Israel's history in 1996.
Peres was much criticized on the left for clinging to his position as foreign minister in a government that was not seen as advancing the peace process,despite his own dovish stance.
As should be evident,Shimon Peres is one of Israel's most durable politicians and is currently the longest-serving member of the Knesset.
Peres was at one time considered something of a hawk.
Peres met secretly with Hussein in London in 1987 and reached a framework agreement with him, but this was rejected by Israel's then Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir.
Peres was perhaps more closely associated with the Oslo Accords than any other Israeli politician (Rabin included) with the possible exception of his own protege, Yossi Beilin.
However, Peres supports Ariel Sharon's military policy of operating the Israeli Defence Forces to thwart suicide bombings and weaken the integrity of Palestinian organizations.
Pitango Venture Capital, one of Israel�s largest venture capital funds.
Peres is the first cousin of actress Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske.
Shimon Peres is interested in nanoelectronics.
JERUSALEM Israel's Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres is being investigated for alleged involvement in a private technology fund coordinated with the Palestinian Authority while he was a government minister -- a move some are charging was a conflict of interest requiring him to step down from his government position, WorldNetDaily has learned.
Investors in the fund, allegedly procured while Peres was minister of regional cooperation under Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 1999, include the Palestinian National Authority and several companies that have in the past contributed to the Peres Center for Peace, a non-profit think tank he founded.
The article reported, "A venture capital fund founded by former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has taken a $9 million, 3.
The Palestinian National Authority, according to a report by the Democratic Council, invested $22 million in the fund, also allegedly while Peres was an Israeli minister.
Bedein told WND, "Since Peres was the minister of regional cooperation when the Palestinian investment was made, the Knesset Ethics Committee will now investigate whether Peres was paid a consulting or broker fee as payment for bringing in the investment.
WND has learned the Ethics Committee will investigate whether Peres knew in advance, through contacts while he was a member of the Israeli government, the PA was planning to grant Paltel the exclusive contract, and whether Peres personally profited from the fund's investment.
Peres has held numerous other government posts, including deputy defense minister, minister of immigrant absorption, minister-without-portfolio, minister of transport and communication, and minister of information.
Shimon Peres is a senior Israeli statesman and a world renowned politician, whose political career spans some 65 years.
Peres was voted Israel's ninth president on June 13 2007.
In 1945, Peres married Sonya Gelman.
In 1959 Peres was elected to the Knesset for the first time.
Peres remained defense minister under Rabin until 1977.
When the latter resigned, Peres was named acting prime minister.
In the national unity government which followed in 1988, Peres was the vice premier and finance minister.
In 1992, after Labor – headed by Yitzhak Rabin – won the elections, Peres was named foreign minister.
After Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, on November 4 1995, Peres was again named prime minister, defense minister and finance minister.
Vice Premier Shimon Peres was elected Israels ninth president.
Meanwhile, President Shimon Peres has been declaring, both in Israel and abroad, that the Saudi peace initiative constitutes a basis for a.
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AFP - Israeli President Shimon Peres said Gaza must not become a satellite of Iran, in an interview published Thursday by an Italian daily.
The Israeli President Shimon Peres says Israel does not intend to occupy the Gaza Strip.
JERUSALEM, Jan 6 (UPI) -- Israeli President Shimon Peres says Europe needs to open its eyes on the threat posed by Palestinian terrorists when criticizing Israels actions in Gaza.
father of the Israeli hi-tech industries.
known, and actively encouraged settlement of the occupied West Bank.
Peres is an incorrigible subversive.
Peres remained Labor party chairman until 1992.
annually to about 15% in a very brief time.
US military equipment that would be sold through Israel.
for the negotiations that brought about the Oslo Accords.
giant peace rally in the main square of Tel Aviv, now called Rabin square.