Shimon Peres
| Shimon Peres | |
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Peres in 2007
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| 9th President of Israel | |
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In office July 15, 2007 – July 24, 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ehud Olmert Benjamin Netanyahu |
| Preceded by | Moshe Katsav |
| Succeeded by | Reuven Rivlin |
| 8th Prime Minister of Israel | |
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In office November 4, 1995 – June 18, 1996 Acting: November 4, 1995 – November 22, 1995 |
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| President | Ezer Weizman |
| Preceded by | Yitzhak Rabin |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Netanyahu |
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In office September 13, 1984 – October 20, 1986 |
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| President | Chaim Herzog |
| Preceded by | Yitzhak Shamir |
| Succeeded by | Yitzhak Shamir |
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In office April 22, 1977 – June 21, 1977 Acting |
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| President | Ephraim Katzir |
| Preceded by | Yitzhak Rabin |
| Succeeded by | Menachem Begin |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office March 7, 2001 – November 2, 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | Ariel Sharon |
| Deputy | Michael Melchior |
| Preceded by | Shlomo Ben-Ami |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Netanyahu |
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In office July 14, 1992 – November 22, 1995 |
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| Prime Minister | Yitzhak Rabin |
| Deputy |
Yossi Beilin Eli Dayan |
| Preceded by | David Levy |
| Succeeded by | Ehud Barak |
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In office October 20, 1986 – December 23, 1988 |
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| Prime Minister | Yitzhak Shamir |
| Preceded by | Yitzhak Shamir |
| Succeeded by | Moshe Arens |
| Minister of Defence | |
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In office November 4, 1995 – June 18, 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Yitzhak Rabin |
| Succeeded by | Yitzhak Mordechai |
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In office June 3, 1974 – June 20, 1977 |
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| Prime Minister | Yitzhak Rabin |
| Preceded by | Moshe Dayan |
| Succeeded by | Ezer Weizman |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office December 22, 1988 – March 15, 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Yitzhak Shamir |
| Preceded by | Moshe Nissim |
| Succeeded by | Yitzhak Shamir |
| Minister of Transportation | |
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In office September 1, 1970 – March 10, 1974 |
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| Prime Minister | Golda Meir |
| Preceded by | Ezer Weizman |
| Succeeded by | Aharon Yariv |
| Member of the Knesset | |
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In office November 3, 1959 – June 13, 2007 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Szymon Perski August 2, 1923 Wiszniew, Poland |
| Died |
September 28, 2016 (aged 93) Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Resting place |
Mount Herzl Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel |
| Political party |
Mapai (1959–1965) Rafi (1965–1968) Labor (1968–2005) Kadima (2005–2016) |
| Other political affiliations |
Alignment (1965–1991) |
| Spouse(s) | Sonya Gelman (m. 1945; d. 2011) |
| Children |
Zvia Yoni Chemi |
| Alma mater |
The New School New York University Harvard University |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Awards | Nobel Peace Prize (1994) |
| Signature |  |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Israel
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| Service/branch |
Haganah Israeli Defense Forces |
Shimon Peres (
listen ; Hebrew: שמעון פרס; born Szymon Perski; August 2, 1923 – September 28, 2016) was an Israeli politician who served both as ninth President of Israel, (2007 to 2014) and Prime Minister of Israel, as well as Interim Prime Minister. He was a member of twelve cabinets in a political career spanning nearly 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, was in office continuously until 2007, when he became President, being in that role for another seven years. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state. He was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation.
From a young age, he was renowned for his oratorical brilliance, and was chosen as a protégé by David Ben Gurion, Israel's founding father. He began his political career in the late 1940s, holding several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952 which he attained at the age of 28, and Director-General from 1953 until 1959. In 1956, he took part in the historic negotiations on the described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as the "highest form of statesmanship".
In 1963, he held negotiations with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, which resulted in the sale of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel, the first sale of U.S. military equipment to Israel. On October 26, 1994, Jordan and Israel signed the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which had been initiated by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. 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. During his career, he represented five political parties in the Knesset: Mapai, Rafi, the Alignment, Labor and Kadima, and led Alignment and Labor. In 1996, he founded the Peres Center for Peace, which has the aim of "promot[ing] lasting peace and advancement in the Middle East by fostering tolerance, economic and technological development, cooperation and well-being." In July 2016, he founded the 'Israel innovation center' in the Arab neighbourhood of Ajami, Jaffa, aiming to encourage young people from around the world to be inspired by technology.
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