- Born
- Died
- Birth nameSzymon Persky
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Shimon Peres was born on August 2, 1923 in Wiszniewo, Poland [now Vishnyeva, Belarus]. He was married to Sonya Gelman. He died on September 28, 2016 in Ramat Gan, Israel.
- SpouseSonya Gelman(May 1945 - January 20, 2011) (her death, 3 children)
- Being the last Prime Minister of Israel to be born in the diaspora, his family emigrated from Poland.
- Was elected President of Israel on June 13, 2007. He is the first former Israeli Prime Minister to become Israeli President.
- 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.
- Awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, together with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
- Member of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, for five different parties since 1959.
- When you win a war, your people are united and applaud you. When you make peace, your people are doubtful and resentful.
- Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
- The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
- If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem but a fact that must be coped with.
- Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.
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