[1] Wiszniew, Poland, is now generally stated as Vishneva, Belarus. "I was born in a small Jewish shtetl that -- during the two wars, the first and the second it was under Polish control -- but otherwise it was Belarus. Russians. And they hated the Poles. They wouldn't speak the language. The place I was born was a very small place, totally Jewish, and we were living neither in Poland nor in Russia. We were living in Israel from the day I was born, even before emigrating." (Shimon Peres, Academy of Achievement interview, 2003).
Wife: Sonya Gelman (b. 1923, m. May-1945, d. 2011, two sons, one daughter)
High School: Geula School, Tel Aviv
High School: Youth Village Ben-Shemen (boarding school)
President of Israel (15-Jul-2007 to 24-Jul-2014)
Prime Minister of Israel (1995-96)
Prime Minister of Israel (1984-86)
Israeli Minister Finance
Israeli Minister Foreign
Israeli Minister Defense
Israeli Knesset (1959-)
Academy of Achievement (2003)
Hague Appeal for Peace Honorary Committee
Nobel Peace Prize 1994 (with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin)
Fainted Tel Aviv, Israel (12-Sep-2009)
Funeral: Gerald Ford (2007)
Funeral: Ariel Sharon (2014)
Audience with the Pope Pope Francis (2013)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (27-Jul-2008) · Himself
Author of books:
The Next Step (1965)
David's Sling (1970)
And Now Tomorrow (1978)
From These Men (1979)
Entebbe Diary (1991)
The New Middle East (1993)
Battling for Peace (1995)
AKA Szymon Perski