28 September 2016(2016-09-28) (aged 93) Ramat Gan, Israel
Resting place
Mount Herzl, Jerusalem
Nationality
Israeli
Political party
Mapai (1959–1965)
Rafi (1965–1968)
Labor (1968–2005)
Kadima (2005–2016)
Other political affiliations
Alignment (1965–1991)
Spouse
Sonya Gelman
(m. 1945; died 2011)
Relations
Lauren Bacall (cousin) Uzi Peres (nephew)
Children
Tsvia
Yoni
Chemi
Education
The New School
New York University
Harvard University
Awards
Nobel Peace Prize (1994)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
Israel
Branch/service
Haganah
Israel Defense Forces
Shimon Peres's voice
Shimon Peres on the signing of the Oslo Accords Recorded 19 September 1993
a. ^ Acting: 4–22 November 1995
Shimon Peres (/ʃiːˌmoʊnˈpɛrɛs,-ɛz/shee-MOHNPERR-ess, -ez;[1][2][3] Hebrew: שמעון פרס[ʃiˌmonˈpeʁes]ⓘ; born Szymon Perski, Polish:[ˈʂɨmɔnˈpɛrskʲi]; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of Israel from 2007 to 2014. He was a member of twelve cabinets and represented five political parties in a political career spanning 70 years.[4] Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and except for a three-month-long interregnum in early 2006, served as a member of the Knesset continuously until he was elected president in 2007. Serving in the Knesset for 48 years (with the first uninterrupted stretch lasting more than 46 years), Peres is the longest serving member in the Knesset's history. At the time of his retirement from politics in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state and was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation.[5]
From a young age, he was renowned for his oratorical brilliance, and was chosen as a protégé by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father.[6] He began his political career in the late 1940s, holding several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. His first high-level government position was as deputy director general of defense in 1952 which he attained at the age of 28, and director general from 1953 until 1959.[7] In 1956, he took part in the historic negotiations on the Protocol of Sèvres,[8] which was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as the "highest form of statesmanship".[9] In 1963, he held negotiations with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, which resulted in the sale of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel, the first sale of U.S. military equipment to Israel.[10] Peres represented Mapai, Rafi, the Alignment, Labor and Kadima in the Knesset, and led Alignment and Labor.[11]
Peres first succeeded Yitzhak Rabin as acting prime minister briefly during 1977, before becoming prime minister from 1984 to 1986. As foreign minister under Prime Minister Rabin, Peres engineered the 1994 Israel–Jordan peace treaty,[12] and won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the Oslo Accords peace talks with the Palestinian leadership.[7] In 1996, he founded the Peres Center for Peace, which has the aim of "promot[ing] lasting peace and advancement in the Middle East by fostering tolerance, economic and technological development, cooperation and well-being."[13] After suffering a stroke, Peres died in 2016 near Tel Aviv.[14][15]
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^"Peres, Shimon". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 24 April 2022.
^"Peres". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
^Amiram Barkat. "Presidency rounds off 66-year career". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 4 September 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
^Shimon Peres: The Last Link to Israel's Founding Fathers by DAVID A. GRAHAM 27 September 2016, The Atlantic
^MAKING HISTORY By Benny Morris
26 July 2010, Tablet Magazine
^ abTore Frängsmyr, ed. (1995). "Shimon Peres, The Nobel Peace Prize 1994". The Nobel Foundation.
^Affaire de Suez, Le Pacte Secret Archived 19 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Peter Hercombe and Arnaud Hamelin, France 5/Sunset Presse/Transparence, 2006
^Eden, By Peter Wilby, Haus Publishing, 2006
^Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary, by Bernard Reich, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1990, page 406
^Israeli politician Shimon Peres dies at 93 Washington Post, 18 September 2016
^"THE JORDAN-ISRAEL ACCORD: THE OVERVIEW; ISRAEL AND JORDAN SIGN A PEACE ACCORD". archive.nytimes.com.
^"The Peres Center for Peace - Who We Are". Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
^Levine, Daniel S. (27 September 2016). "Shimon Peres Dead: How Did the Former Israeli Prime Minister Die?". Heavy. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
^Wootliff, Raoul (28 September 2016). "Shimon Peres, the last of Israel's founding fathers, dies at 93". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
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