Shimon Perez

Shimon Peres (Hebrew: שמעון פרס, pronounced: [ʃiˌmon ˈpeʁes]; August 15, 1923 - September 28, 2016), an Israeli politician who served as the President of Israel from 2007 to 2014, twice as the Prime Minister of Israel, twice as the Acting Prime Minister, and served in twelve cabinets. His political career lasted nearly 70 years. Perez was elected to the Assembly in November 1959 and continued to serve (except for three months in early 2006) until he was elected president in 2007 and served as president for seven years. When Peres announced his retirement in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state. He is also considered the last person of Israel's founding generation. As a young man, Peres was known for his oratory talents, which led Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to recruit him. Peres began his political career in the late 1940s and held various diplomatic and military positions after Israel's War of Independence. In 1952, Peres became deputy director-general of the Ministry of Defense at the age of 28. The following year, he became director-general of the Ministry of National Defense. General), serving until 1959. In 1956, Peres participated in the negotiation process of the "Sèvres Agreement" on the eve of the second Israeli-Arab war, which was praised by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as "a political achievement of the highest level". In 1963, Peres negotiated with US President John F. Kennedy, which enabled Israel to purchase Eagle anti-aircraft missiles. This was also the first arms sale from the United States to Israel. On October 26, 1994, driven by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Jordan and Israel formally signed a peace treaty. In 1994, former Foreign Ministers Shimon Peres, Rabin and Yasser Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in reaching the Oslo Accords. During his political career, Peres represented five different parties in the Knesset: the Workers' Party, the Workers' List Party, the Alliance Party, the Labor Party and the Kadima Party. The first three parties were the predecessors of the Labor Party. In 1996, Peres established the Peres Peace Center, which aims to promote long-term peace and development in the Middle East by promoting tolerance, economic and technological development, cooperation and happiness. Perez speaks Polish, French, English, Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew, but his Hebrew still has a Polish accent. He was also a poet and composer, and during cabinet meetings