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Shimon Peres
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Name	Shimon Peres
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Personal Details
Birth Place	Vishnyeva, Second Polish Republic (now Belarus)
Brith Date	2 August 1923
Death Place	Israel
Death Date	28 September 2016 (aged 93)
Religion	Judaism

Shimon Peres was the ninth President of occupied Palestine. He served as a representative from 1959 to 2007, holding the longest tenure in the Knesset. Many believe that instead of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, he should have been tried and punished as a war criminal. Shimon Peres served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel in the second government of Yitzhak Rabin and played a key role in the negotiations between Yasser Arafat (Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization) and Yitzhak Rabin. Following these negotiations, the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization recognized each other, and the Oslo Accords were signed between them in 1993. Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and Yasser Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 following these negotiations.

Who is Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres is a politician and statesman of the Zionist regime with seven decades of professional activity. During this period, he served as deputy, held ministerial positions, served as President for 7 years, and was simultaneously the oldest head of state. In addition to political activities, Peres became known for books, publications, and articles regarding the conflict between Arabs and Israel.

This politician was born on 2 August 1923 in the Republic of Poland (this territory now belongs to Belarus). In childhood, he was named Senya Persky. His father was a timber merchant and his mother was a librarian and Russian language teacher. In addition, he also had a famous distant relative, Lauren Bacall, who is known as one of the biggest stars of Hollywood.

However, in numerous interviews, Shimon Peres said that his maternal grandfather, who held the scientific title of Rabbi and was a descendant of the famous founder of Volozhin Yeshiva, had the greatest influence on his life.

The Qana Criminal

According to the Alalam News Network, Peres committed a horrific crime in southern Lebanon in 1996, known as the "Qana massacre". In this crime, dozens of Lebanese including several women and children were martyred. This occurred while he had received the Nobel Peace Prize two years prior to this crime in 1994! Peres was born in Poland in 1923 and went to the occupied lands of Palestine in 1934. He was one of the founders of the Zionist regime.

The Criminal Who Received the Peace Prize

Engineer and designer of the Zionist regime's nuclear program:

Shimon Peres was known as the designer and engineer of the Zionist regime's nuclear program, but he gained international fame after signing the Oslo Treaty between the Zionist regime and the Palestine Liberation Organization after long secret and hidden negotiations in Oslo – the capital of Norway – in 1993. Peres jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin, the then Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, and the martyr Yasser Arafat, the late leader of Palestine.

The Bloody History of the Criminal Peres

The skills and abilities that the criminal Shimon Peres possessed turned him from the very beginning into one of the hopes of the Zionist regime to advance the Zionism project in the land of Palestine, which David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, said in this regard that his wish was for Shimon Peres and Ariel Sharon to take the helm of this regime such that Peres would be Prime Minister and Sharon would be Minister of War.

To express the peak of the devilish alliance of Peres and Sharon and how they committed wild and horrific crimes against the Palestinian and Arab nations, one can refer to two days of their alliance. First, 18 April 1996, when the first Qana crime occurred, and the day 30 July 2006, when the second Qana massacre took place, and both crimes were committed against innocent and non-combatant individuals in refugee camps in the town of Qana located in southern Lebanon.

On these two days, the criminal Peres and Sharon shed the blood of thousands of children and innocents and tore apart the buds of their lives. This is the same Shimon Peres that some Arab leaders imagine was the only person with whom negotiations could be entered and peace and reconciliation achieved in the Middle East, but in reality, he was a poisonous and stinging scorpion.

Migration to Israel

Shimon Peres was 8 years old when his father went to Palestine for grain trade. After 3 years, his wife and children followed him. His grandfather did not go with them and after 7 years was burned by the Germans along with the rest of his relatives in the Synagogue. Shimon went to high school in Tel Aviv. After graduating from there, he entered the Kibbutz work school. There he met Sonia Gelman and married her in 1945. After learning his first studies, Peres engaged in farming and joined the Unity and Revival movement of the Jewish people.

At the age of 18, he served as secretary of the Socialist Organization of Youth, then joined the MAPAI party and at the age of 24 worked in the management of the underground military organization Haganah.

First Steps on the Career Ladder

His commitment to his cause helped Shimon Peres become the assistant director-general of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. During the Arab-Israeli War, he purchased weapons and equipment, and recruited military forces. In 1948, he became the head of the Naval Group, and a year later - head of the Ministry of Defense delegation, sent to America. He successfully combined his work with studies at New York and Harvard universities. At 28, he became Deputy Director-General and a year later assumed the position himself.

Although Peres was the youngest Director-General in the history of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, he performed his duties successfully, improved relations with France, controlled the country's budget and production, and placed the latter on a war footing. This politician understood the importance of developing science and technology; he supported research in the military field and contributed to the creation of nuclear research centers.

Strategic Alliance with France

Shimon Peres not only established military relations with France - but also helped in arming and supplying tanks to Israel. He soon replaced England as the main source of ammunition, and after Peres's secret visit to the French Air Force commander, Israel obtained two of the most modern fighter aircraft, additional tanks, radar, and weapons.

Close relations with France were not easy. Peres had to work hard to overcome the hostility of some dignitaries and adapt to frequent government changes. But the results exceeded all expectations; Israel had the opportunity to purchase military equipment worth millions of dollars, and a strategic alliance was created.

Sinai Campaign

France not only helped Israel arm itself. Representatives of the French Ministry of Defense management provided active assistance in the attack on Egypt. This was interesting for the senior management, and soon a meeting of delegations from Israel, France, and England was held. They coordinated their forces' actions and prepared an operational plan. The subsequent Suez Crisis ended with Egypt's military defeat, and Peres was awarded the Legion of Honour.

At the end of the Sinai Campaign, Shimon Peres began to strengthen the army and prepare new scientific research. He began to improve relations with the Federal Republic of Germany. Continuing the purchase of foreign equipment, Peres decided to develop military production within Israel itself, and soon the first training aircraft was produced there.

His next goal was to achieve nuclear weapons. The construction of reactors and production for separating radioactive metals was carried out with French support. All information regarding bomb designs was classified.

First Ups and Downs

The political rise in Shimon Peres's biography began in 1959, when he became Deputy Minister and a month and a half later, Deputy Minister of Defense. In his new position, he continued the path he had taken: he did not abandon his intention to create a military industry in Israel and develop the nuclear program, and increased the supply of French weapons and technologies.

However, when conflict began within the Mapai political party, Shimon was forced to retreat from it. After leaving his position as Deputy, he became one of the founders of a movement called the Israeli Workers' List. Thus, he found himself in opposition to the government.

Shimon Peres's quote about this time well demonstrates the fundamentality of the changes that occurred in his life. He recalled how he sat in a small, stressful room, engaged in worries and trivial matters and collecting funds for his movement's performance, while only six months earlier he was responsible for the Ministry of Defense apparatus and unimaginable money passed through his hands.

Ministerial Positions

Disputes in Mapai were resolved, and soon he united along with the "Israeli Workers' List" and another Jewish political party to create Avoda. Another name for the new organization was the "Labor Party"; Peres took one of the two secretary positions.

When Avoda won the elections, Peres became Minister of Absorption, then Transport, and then Communications. This politician actively took on new responsibilities, improving Israel's accession to satellite communications and telephone lines.

Political Setbacks

Peres did not intend to retreat and again ran at the head of the Labor Party in the elections. However, this time he faced failure. The third election also did not end in victory for Peres and his Labor Party, and he took the Prime Minister in the National Unity Government, the position of Minister of Interior and simultaneously Religious Affairs. Here he achieved a specific success: forces were withdrawn from Lebanon and the country's internal political situation was stabilized. Then he took the position of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.

In his new position, he decided to plot against the right-center Likud party, which nullified negotiations with the Palestinians. In this matter, the ultra-religious parties were supposed to help him, but they broke the agreement after the fall of the government and a new leadership was formed without the participation of the Labor Party.

Many people inside the party were dissatisfied with this situation and, without diminishing Peres's right as a prominent politician, believed that he was not suitable for the role of their leader. Rabin returned to leadership. Then Shimon took over the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Improving relations with the Middle East and concluding agreements with United NationsTemplate:Citation needed and Jordan was mainly due to Shimon Peres, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1994.

Forever Second

The series of failures in Shimon Peres's biography, which began with his first election as leader of the Labor Party, did not end with resignation from the party. After working as Minister of Regional Cooperation, he again led the Labor Party, but a year later lost the party to another candidate. While he was Deputy Prime Minister, the party leadership changed, and after the resignation of its next leader, the position again went to Shimon. But this did not last long: after a while, the politician failed again in the elections and moved to the Kadima party, where he only achieved the second position. He repeatedly missed opportunities to secure leadership positions in various parties, but he has always remained in high politics.

Death

The decline in health of the former president began in 2016 when he suffered a heart attack. Peres was immediately hospitalized and underwent arterial catheterization there. After the operation, he recovered, but in September this politician suffered a stroke and after that his condition was assessed as critical by doctors. Peres had to be placed in a medically induced coma and connected to a life support device.

This method did not create the expected effect; new problems appeared in the form of kidney failure and other pathologies. Doctors could not do anything and the politician died on 28 September 2016.

References

• Derived from the website Shimon Peres: Short Biography, Personal Life, Interesting Facts. Retrieved 10 April 2025.