The first time I met Shimon Peres was 20 years ago, at a heartbreaking stage in his long career. He was in Philadelphia to receive the Liberty Medal, awarded annually to world leaders who promote the blessings of liberty. The prize was to be shared with Jordan’s King Hussein. But just weeks before the July…
“I married a dairy farmer,” Sonia Peres once said when asked about her husband, Israel’s honored statesman Shimon Peres. The couple, together for 67 years, shared a tumultuous love story, strained by Peres’ lifelong commitment to public service — and his wife’s equally powerful distaste for the spotlight. But if you go back to the…
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will take a break from the campaign and travel to Israel with her husband Bill Clinton to attend the funeral of Shimon Peres. President Barack Obama, as well as Secretary of State John Kerry, also will attend the funeral of Israel’s ninth president scheduled for Friday morning at the Mount…
Israelis woke up to the news that Shimon Peres, the 9th president of Israel and last living leader in Israel’s founding generation, died in the early morning. Israelis had been prepared for this moment since Peres suffered a massive stroke two weeks ago. Still, the news of his passing was cause for reflection for many….
Shimon Peres could have respectfully retired from political life at so many points in his career. He would have still had achieved more to build Israel’s security than nearly anyone else alive. He could have resigned from the Knesset in the mid-1960s, following his mentor and patron David Ben-Gurion. Still in his early 40s, instead…
Former Israeli president and elder statesman Shimon Peres, 93, died in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, prompting U.S. President Barack Obama to mourn: “A light has gone out, but the hope he gave us will burn forever.” Peres, an indefatigable campaigner for Middle East peace who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, was hospitalized…
On my first day of work this summer, I rushed to my office, the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, with the hopes of being the first one there. Call me eager or anxious, but I wanted to make a good first impression. To my surprise, Shimon Peres was already at his desk drinking coffee…
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 ex-prime minister. Peres, who was 93, was rushed to Tel Hashomer Hospital September 13 after suffering a stroke and died the morning of Wednesday September 28, two…
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