Shimon Peres Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Wife, Children, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Szymon Perski
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Thursday
BIRTHPLACE
Wiszniew, Poland
DIED AT AGE
93 Years 1 Months 26 Days
DEATHDATE
September 28, 2016
DEATHPLACE
Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
CAUSE OF DEATH
Stroke
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
LEO
Physical Stats
CHEST
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BICEPS
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WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
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WEIGHT
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Shimon Peres Family Members
BROTHER(S) NAME
FAMILY IMAGE
Shimon Peres Marriage, Affairs and Children
SPOUSE
Sonya Gelman (1945-2011)
Child(ren) of Shimon Peres and Sonya Gelman
Zvia Valdan (20 October, 1946) (Daughter) (Psycholinguist)
Nehemia Peres (July, 1958) (Son)
Fame & Address
SIGNATURE
DEBUT
FAMOUS FROM/AS
9th President of Israel (2007-2014)
Education, Net Worth & More
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Career of Shimon Peres
He became Minister of Transportation in September 1970 until March 1974. In 1974, he became the Minister of Defence. He served as the Prime Minister of Israel in 1977, again in 1984 and 1995, he is elected as the Prime Minister of Israel. He also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs two times first from 1992 to 1995 and 2001 to 2002. He became the President of Israel in 2007 and served at the position until his retirement in 2014.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Shimon Peres
- Did Shimon Peres takes alcohol? NA.
- Was Shimon Peres in the habit of Smoking? NA.
- He held both high ranks which are of a Prime Minister as well as of President in Israel.
- Peres was the oldest head of the state all over the world at the time of his retirement. He was 91 at the time. He was also the last link to Israel's founding generation.
- He also served Israeli Defense Forces at the time of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and after that.
- The politician was multi-lingual and could speak in different languages like English, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Yaddish, and French.
- Alongside being an effective politician, he was also a poet and songwriter as well as an author. Some of his published works are The Next Step, For the Future of Israel, and Ben Gurion: A Political Life. Many of his songs are later on used for albums.
- Peres has received several awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama in 2012 and The Solomon Bublick Award of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the year 2015.
- From the day, he was elected to the Knesset in November 1959, he was in office until the day he was elected as President in 2007 except for three months when he put a small break in his political career.
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