Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres (born August 21, 1923) is an Israeli politician, who was the head of the Israeli Labour Party for many years and served as 8th Prime Minister of Israel for several years, also serving as Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs until 2002.Shimon Peres was born in Poland. He moved to Tel Aviv, Israel with his family in 1934.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin.
Shimon Peres is interested in nanoelectronics.
In 1997 he founded the Peres Center for Peace.
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
"You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea."
—on the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
"With the religious you can hardly negotiate. They think they have supreme permission to kill people and go to war."Awards and interests
Quotes
"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."