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Shimon Peres

Personal data
Date of birth2 August 1923(age 92)
Place of birthWiszniew, Poland (now Belarus)
Birth nameSzymon Perski
Political partyKadima (2005 � present)
Other partyMapai (1959 � 65)
Rafi (1965 � 68)
Labor (1968 � 2005)
SpouseSonya Gelman Peres (1945 � 2011) (her death)
ChildrenZvia
Yoni
Chemi
ReligionJudaism
9th President of Israel
Assumed office15 July 2007
Prime ministerEhud Olmert
Benjamin Netanyahu
Preceded byMoshe Katsav
Prime Minister of Israel
In office4 November 1995 - 18 June 1996
Acting until 22 November 1995
PresidentEzer Weizman
Succeeded byBenjamin Netanyahu
Preceded byYitzhak Rabin
In office13 September 1984 - 20 October 1986
PresidentChaim Herzog
Succeeded byYitzhak Shamir
Preceded byYitzhak Shamir
In office22 April 1977 - 21 June 1977
Acting
PresidentEphraim Katzir
Succeeded byMenachem Begin
Preceded byYitzhak Rabin

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( , born Szymon Perski on 2 August 1923) is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning 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.

He held several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after Israel's War of Independence. His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952, and Director-General in 1953 through 1959. During his career, he has represented five political parties in the Knesset: Mapai, Rafi, the Alignment, Labor and Kadima, and has led Alignment and Labour. Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that he participated in as Israeli Foreign Minister, producing the Oslo Accords.

Peres was nominated in early 2007 by Kadima to run in that year's presidential election, and was elected by the Knesset for the presidency on 13 June 2007 and sworn into office on 15 July 2007 for a seven-year term. He is the first former Prime Minister to be elected President of Israel.


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