“We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through but not a genocide.”
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Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the 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. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and except for three months out of office 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, 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, as well as the last Prime Minister to make aliyah rather than being born on territory that would become Israel.
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“I am not in favor of a military attack on Iran, but we must quickly and decisively establish a strong, aggressive coalition of nations that will impose painful economic sanctions on Iran”
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“not to become prime minister”
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“As a child, I grew up in my grandfather”
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The New York Times: Shimon Peres
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Forbes: Shimon Peres' Seven Lessons For An Eight-Year-Old Boy
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New York Post: What my dad Shimon Peres taught me about Israel — and the world
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Time: Read President Obama's Moving Eulogy for Shimon Peres
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Fox News: Five lessons we can all learn from Shimon Peres
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CNN: Will peace be buried with Shimon Peres?
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WBEZ: The Legacy Of Shimon Peres
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The Nation: Shimon Peres and the Zionist Nightmare
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Died 2016-09-28.
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“Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.”
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“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”
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“We will prove that innovation has no limits and no barriers. Innovation enables dialogue between nations and between people. It will enable all young people – Jews, Muslims and Christians — to engage in science and technology equally.”
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Founded the 'Israel innovation center' in the Arab neighbourhood of Ajami, Jaffa
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At Sheba Medical Center after suffering a stroke
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“I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.”
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“If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent — that's good enough.”
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“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.”
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Awarded Freedom Award (2015).
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Awarded Solomon Bublick Award (2015).
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Won Congressional Gold Medal (2014).
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Awarded Global Citizen Awards (2014).
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Was the world's oldest head of state and was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation, as well as the last Prime Minister to make aliyah rather than being born on territory that would become Israel
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2012).
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“s nuclear program that had been ordered by Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak in 2010. Peres was a proponent of Middle East economic integration. Technology Peres is regarded as one of the founders of Israel”
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (2008).
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Awarded honorary doctor of University College London (2008).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the Bilkent University (2007).
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Career landmark: President of Israel (2007–2014).
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Career landmark: Knesset member (2006–2007).
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Awarded Order of the Sun of Peru (2005).
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Awarded Osgar (2003).
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Won Golden Plate Award (2003).
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Awarded Planetary Consciousness Prize (2002).
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A number of members of the Norwegian committee that awards the annual Nobel Peace Prize would state they regretted that Mr
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel (2001–2002).
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Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (2001–2002).
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Formal leadership of Labor passed to Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and in 2002 it was passed to Amram Mitzna
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Tours University (1999).
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Ehud Barak was elected prime minister and formed a Labor-lead government
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (1998).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala (1997).
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And was replaced by Ehud Barak that year
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Won Philadelphia Liberty Medal (1996).
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Awarded Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Fear (1996).
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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
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Peres 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
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Career landmark: Minister of Defense of Israel (1995–1996).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Israel (1995–1996).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1994).
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In recognition of the Oslo Accords, Peres, Rabin and Arafat were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Awarded Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize (1993).
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel (1992–1995).
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After "the dirty trick" – a failed bid by Peres to form a narrow government based on a coalition of the Alignment, small leftist factions and ultra-orthodox parties
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Career landmark: Minister of Finance (1988–1990).
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Showed Peres to be the most popular politician in the nation
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The Alignment, led by Peres, suffered another narrow defeat
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And reached a framework agreement with him, but this was rejected by Israel's then Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir
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Awarded honorary citizen of Ashdod (1986).
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel (1986–1988).
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Peres publicly supported the quick pursuit of a military pullback from Beirut to Israel's south Lebanon security belt
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Israel (1984–1986).
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By the Begin-headed Likud-led government that had been in power at that time
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(defeating a challenge from Rabin, who was attempting a comeback to the leadership), Peres led his party to another, narrower, loss in the 1981 elections
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Peres was elected vice president of Socialist International
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Israel (1977–1977).
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Career landmark: Minister of Defense of Israel (1974–1977).
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“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.”
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Career landmark: Minister of Transport and Road Safety (1970–1974).
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Career landmark: Minister of Communications (1970–1974).
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Career landmark: Minister without portfolio (1969–1969).
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Peres was appointed minister of immigrant absorption in the 15th government (led by Prime Minister Golda Meir), and in 1970 (also in the 15th government), he became minister of transportation and communications
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Peres and Moshe Dayan were among those that left Mapai with David Ben-Gurion when Ben-Gurion formed a new party, Rafi
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Career landmark: Deputy Minister of Defense (1964–1965).
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Career landmark: Deputy Minister of Defense (1963–1964).
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Career landmark: Deputy Minister of Defense (1961–1963).
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Career landmark: Deputy Minister of Defense (1959–1961).
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Career landmark: Knesset member (1959–2006).
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Founded the re-organized RAFAEL Armament Development Authority, under the MOD's jurisdiction
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Would be named after Peres
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1957).
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Took part in the historic negotiations on the Protocol of Sèvres, which was described by British prime minister Anthony Eden as the "highest form of statesmanship"
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Testified against Minister of Defense Pinhas Lavon in what became known as the Lavon Affair
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Which he attained at the age of 28, and director general from 1953 until 1959
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“In 1952 or 1953 I came to New York... Lauren Bacall called me, said that she wanted to meet, and we did. We sat and talked about where our families came from, and discovered that we were from the same family”
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Peres was appointed deputy director general of the Ministry of Defense, and the following year, he was promoted to director general
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“In 1952 or 1953, I came to New York ... Lauren Bacall called me, said that she wanted to meet, and we did. We sat and talked about where our families came from, and discovered that we were from the same family ... but I”
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Peres joined the Haganah, the predecessor of the Israel Defense Forces
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Peres and Moshe Dayan were chosen as the two youth delegates in the Mapai delegation to the Zionist Congress in Basel
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Peres married Sonia Gelman, who preferred to remain outside the public eye
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Peres led an illicit expedition into the Negev, then a closed military zone requiring a permit to enter
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Were murdered during the Holocaust, many of them (including Rabbi Meltzer) burned alive in the town's synagogue
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Was elected Secretary of HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, a Labor Zionist youth movement
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Peres's father immigrated to Mandatory Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv
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Born 1923-08-02.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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Awarded Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.
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Awarded Steiger Award.
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Awarded Order of Stara Planina.
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Awarded Order for Merits to Lithuania.
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Awarded Legion of Honour.
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Awarded Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria.
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Awarded Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class.
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania.
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Awarded Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Awarded Order of Mono.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University.
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Studied at Harvard University.
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Studied at New York University.
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Studied at Ironi Alef High School.
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Studied at The New School for Social Research.
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Studied at The New School.
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