President Shimon Peres eulogized peace activist Aibe Nathan, who died Wednesday at the age of 81, during the funeral held at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Avv.
"Even if we didn't always agree with Aibe, he couldn’t have been ignored. He was...
Veteran peace activist Abie Nathan died last night at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, 11 years after suffering a stroke that left him confined to a wheelchair. He was famous for the messages of peace he broadcast for 20 years on his pirate radio...
ISLAMABAD: Israeli President Shimon Peres is desperately trying to help his friend President Pervez Musharraf and is putting indirect pressure on the coalition government through different diplomatic channels not to impeach him, Foreign...
Only in cyberspace would an Iranian singer set to music lyrics composed by an Israeli president.
But this is no Internet fable.
Among the guitar-strumming musicians and blond-haired vocalists signed up on the site of songweavers.com is none other than...
Background
Shimon Peres (help·info) (Hebrew: שמעון פרס, born Szymon Perski on August 2, 1923) is the ninth and current President of the State Israel. Peres has long been a popular and important politician in Israel - he previously served two times as Prime Minister of Israel, one time as Acting Prime Minister, and has served in 12 cabinets over a political career lasting 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.
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