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Shimon Peres (About this sound listen ; Hebrew: ????? ????; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923) is a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and he was a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President.He held several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after Israel’s War of Independence. His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952, and Director-General from 1953 until 1959. During his career, he has represented five political parties in the Knesset: Mapai, Rafi, the Alignment, Labor and Kadima, and has led Alignment and Labor. 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.Peres was nominated in early 2007 by Kadima to run in that year’s presidential election, and was elected by the Knesset to the presidency on 13 June 2007 and sworn into office on 15 July 2007 for a seven-year term. He is the first former Prime Minister to be elected President of Israel.In 2008, Peres was honorarily appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George. 

Full Name Shimon Peres
Net Worth $10 Million
Date Of Birth August 16, 1923
Died September 28, 2016, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
Place Of Birth Wolozyn, Nowogródzkie, Poland [now Valozhyn, Belarus]
Profession Politician
Education Harvard University
Nationality Israeli
Spouse Sonya Gelman
Children Yoni, Chemi, Zvia
Parents Sara Perski, Yitzhak Perski
Siblings Gershon Perski
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0673364
Awards Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Quote
1 Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time because, if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?
2 I cannot recall anything a terrorist achieved but killing people.
3 [ on the greatest obstacle to peace] Disagreement is produced by its own suspicion, hatred, mistrust. The greatest problem today is mistrust. Mistrust produces terror, and each side blames the other side. So it’s a machine that works for itself, and we have to bring it down. People will say it’s impossible, but that is nonsense.
4 I think that peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before Facebook.
5 When we started sixty-four years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim. Israel has it’s attractions. It’s the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody’s engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know?
6 Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.
7 If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem but a fact that must be coped with.
8 The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
9 Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
10 When you win a war, your people are united and applaud you. When you make peace, your people are doubtful and resentful.
Fact
1 Awarded a Congressional Gold Medal (9 June 2014, Public Law 113-114; 128 Stat. 1178).
2 Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on 29 May 2012.
3 Was elected President of Israel on June 13, 2007. He is the first former Israeli Prime Minister to become Israeli President.
4 Has three children: Tzvia, Yoni and Chemi.
5 Being the last Prime Minister of Israel to be born in the diaspora, his family emigrated from Poland.
6 Was in the running for the presidency of Israel in the 2000 election, but Likud candidate Moshe Katsav won the seven-year term.
7 Prime Minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and 1995 to 1996.
8 Authored 10 books, including: “Battling for Peace” (1995), “Entebbe Diary” (1991), “The New Middle East” (1993), “David’s Sling” (1970) & “The Next Step” (1965).
9 Peres also served as Deputy Minister of Defense, Chairman of the Labour Party, Vice President of the Socialist International & as Temporary Speaker of the Knesset.
10 Held the following positions in Israeli government: Minister of Transportation, Minister of Cummunication, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Minister without Portfolio, Minister of Defense, Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Religious Affairs, Minister Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance, Minister of Information & Minister of Regional Cooperation.
11 Member of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, for five different parties since 1959.
12 Awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, together with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
13 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.

Actor

Title Year Status Character
Magazine 52 1974 TV Series

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Operation Thunderbolt: Entebbe 2000 TV Movie documentary special thanks – as Fmr P.M. Shimon Peres

Self

Title Year Status Character
The University 2016 Documentary Himself – Interviewee
Chelsea Does 2016 TV Series documentary Himself
World Order 2015 Documentary Himself
Rabin, the Last Day 2015 Himself
Zinor Layla 2015 TV Series Himself
CNN NewsCenter 2015 TV Series documentary Himself – Israeli President
Patterns of Evidence: Exodus 2014 Documentary Himself
Above and Beyond 2014 Documentary Himself
Matzav Ha’Uma 2013 TV Series Himself
The Frost Interview 2012 TV Series Himself
Piers Morgan Tonight 2011-2012 TV Series Himself
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres 2012 Documentary Himself
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat 2012 Documentary Himself
Charlie Rose 1994-2012 TV Series Himself – Guest / Himself
Los desayunos de TVE 2002-2011 TV Series Himself
Hannity 2010 TV Series Himself
Deutschland, deine Künstler 2010 TV Series documentary Himself
Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams 2009 Documentary Himself
After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United 2009 Documentary Himself
Beijing 2008 Olympics Games Opening Ceremony 2008 TV Movie Himself – Israeli President
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh 2008 Documentary Himself – President of Israel
Situation Critical 2007 TV Series documentary Himself – Israeli Defense Minister
Face the Nation 2006 TV Series Himself
Sabine Christiansen 2006 TV Series Himself
Hardball with Chris Matthews 2006 TV Series Himself
Mischak Machur 2006 TV Series Himself
Tout le monde en parle 2006 TV Series Himself
Sunday AM 2006 TV Series Himself
De skrev historie 2005 TV Series Himself
Eretz Nehederet 2005 TV Series Himself
Peace One Day 2004 Documentary Himself
The Other Side of Suez 2004 TV Movie documentary Himself – Israeli Minister of Defence
Zola Levitt Presents 2003 TV Series documentary Himself
Willy Brandt – Eine Jahrhundertgestalt 2003 TV Movie documentary Himself
America Undercover 2003 TV Series documentary Himself
Israel’s Secret Weapon 2003 TV Movie documentary Himself
Breakfast with Frost 2002 TV Series Himself
Der Frieden und sein Preis – Das Vermächtnis des Alfred Nobel 2001 TV Short documentary Himself – Laureate 1994
In Search of Peace 2001 Documentary Himself, former prime minister of Israel
Operation Thunderbolt: Entebbe 2000 TV Movie documentary Himself – Former Prime Minster of Israel
American Masters 2000 TV Series documentary Himself
60 Minutes 2000 TV Series documentary Himself – Former Prime Minister (segment “Who Is Arnon Milchan?”)
Water: The Drop of Life 2000 TV Series documentary Himself
Yitzhak Rabin: Warrior/Peacemaker 1999 TV Movie documentary Himself
20 heures le journal 1999 TV Series Himself – Interviewee
HARDtalk 1999 TV Series Himself
Les 4 vérités 1997 TV Series Himself
Talking with David Frost 1996 TV Series Himself – Guest
7 sur 7 1995 TV Series Himself – Guest
This Week 1990 TV Series Himself
Mivtsa Yonatan 1977 Himself (uncredited)
Magazine 52 1974 TV Series Himself
Ben Gurion Remembers 1972 Documentary Himself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
The Seventies 2015 TV Series documentary Himself – Israeli Defense Minister
Iran, une puissance dévoilée 2009 TV Movie documentary Himself
Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story 2008 Documentary Himself
Weaponology 2008 TV Series documentary Himself – Israeli Prime Minister
Rabin-Peres: Everything Is Personal 2007 TV Movie documentary
Leila Khaled: Hijacker 2006 Documentary Himself
History’s Mysteries: Infamous Murders 2003 TV Series documentary Himself
60 Minutes 2000 TV Series documentary Himself – Former Prime Minister (segment “Who Is Arnon Milchan?”)
Memories of 1970-1991 1991 TV Series documentary Himself

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