Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres[1] (born August 2, 1923) is the President of the State of Israel. Peres has been in Israeli politics since 1959. He used to be the foreign minister of Israel, and had also been the Prime Minister of Israel three times.[2]
He was one of three leaders who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.[3] The others were Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin. All three got the prizes for trying to make peace in the Middle East.
References [change]
- ↑ Shimon Peres (Hebrew: שמעון פרס )
- ↑ YNetNews.com, "President of Israel, Shimon Peres"; retrieved 2012-9-18.
- ↑ NobelPrize.org, "Shimon Peres"; retrieved 2012-9-18.
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