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Culture Remembering Shimon Peres, Israel’s Liberal Elder Statesman
Editor’s Note: On this day in 2016, former state president and prime minister Shimon Peres died at teh age of 93. Here’s how the Forward remembered him. Israel lost its most honored senior statesman, the last active member of its founding generation, with the death today of Shimon Peres, the former ceremonial state president and…
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Culture What Was Shimon Peres’s One Final Regret?
No Room For Small Dreams By Shimon Peres HarperCollins, 240 Pages, $27.99 There remains, one year after his passing, a void in Israeli politics in the shape of Shimon Peres. The former president and prime minister was, as Amos Oz eulogized at his funeral in September 2016, a trailblazer who seemed constantly ahead of his…
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Community The Tenacity Of Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres’s story offers a compelling argument for the indispensable role of leadership, a quality notably absent from the world stage today. Indeed, the first anniversary of the Israeli statesman’s death on September 28 can serve as an important lesson on the potential of those with access to power to shape events, even amid serious…
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Israel News Shimon Peres’ Filipino Caregiver Mourns With Israel A Year After His Death
He shined Shimon Peres’s shoes, cooked him breakfast and even helped him shower. As Peres’s live-in caregiver, Ferdinand Capacia knew the 9th Israeli president and Nobel Prize laureate in a way almost no one else did. When Peres died a year ago at age 93, the most tender tribute to the Israeli founding father came…
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres’ Yarzheit Ceremony: ‘Much More To Do’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A state ceremony in Jerusalem marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Shimon Peres. Peres’ family, world leaders and state and business leaders attended Thursday morning’s ceremony at Mount Herzl cemetery. “His biggest dream – peace – my father did not get to see realized. My father knew that this dream…
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Fast Forward Obama To Appear In New Shimon Peres Documentary
Former president Barack Obama will appear in an upcoming documentary about the life of former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres. “Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres” is being directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Richard Trank for Moriah Films, the filmmaking unit of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Trank told The…
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Fast Forward Rio Mayor Praises Legacy Of Shimon Peres At Dedication Of Square
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The mayor of Rio de Janeiro said in an interview that his city’s residents must be inspired by the memory of Israel’s late former president and prime minister, Shimon Peres. “The Cariocas must be inspired by Peres,” Mayor Marcello Crivella told O Globo newspaper, using the term to describe Rio’s native residents….
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