Shimon Peres facts for kids

Shimon Peres
שמעון פרס
Shimon Peres; שמעון פרס
9th President of Israel
	In office; 15 July 2007 – 24 July 2014
Prime Minister	Ehud Olmert; Benjamin Netanyahu
Preceded by	Moshe Katsav
Succeeded by	Reuven Rivlin
Prime Minister of Israel
	In office; 4 November 1995 – 18 June 1996; Acting: 4 November 1995 – 22 November 1995
President	Ezer Weizman
Preceded by	Yitzhak Rabin
Succeeded by	Benjamin Netanyahu
	In office; 13 September 1984 – 20 October 1986
President	Chaim Herzog
Preceded by	Yitzhak Shamir
Succeeded by	Yitzhak Shamir
	In office; 22 April 1977 – 21 June 1977; Acting
President	Ephraim Katzir
Preceded by	Yitzhak Rabin
Succeeded by	Menachem Begin
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 7 March 2001 – 2 November 2002
Prime Minister	Ariel Sharon
Deputy	Michael Melchior
Preceded by	Shlomo Ben-Ami
Succeeded by	Benjamin Netanyahu
	In office; 14 July 1992 – 22 November 1995
Prime Minister	Yitzhak Rabin
Deputy	Yossi Beilin; Eli Dayan
Preceded by	David Levy
Succeeded by	Ehud Barak
	In office; 20 October 1986 – 23 December 1988
Prime Minister	Yitzhak Shamir
Preceded by	Yitzhak Shamir
Succeeded by	Moshe Arens
Minister of Defense
	In office; 4 November 1995 – 18 June 1996
Preceded by	Yitzhak Rabin
Succeeded by	Yitzhak Mordechai
	In office; 3 June 1974 – 20 June 1977
Prime Minister	Yitzhak Rabin
Preceded by	Moshe Dayan
Succeeded by	Ezer Weizman
Minister of Finance
	In office; 22 December 1988 – 15 March 1990
Prime Minister	Yitzhak Shamir
Preceded by	Moshe Nissim
Succeeded by	Yitzhak Shamir
Personal details
Born	Szymon Perski ; 2 August 1923; Wiszniew, Poland; (now Belarus)
Died	September 28, 2016 (aged 93); Ramat Gan, Israel
Political party	Mapai (1959–1965); Rafi (1965–1968); Labor (1968–2005); Kadima (2005–present)
Other political; affiliations	Alignment (1965–1991)
Spouse(s)	Sonya Gelman (1945–2011)
Children	Zvia; Yoni; Chemi
Education	The New School; New York University; Harvard University
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Shimon Peres (Hebrew: שמעון פרס; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel. He also served as Interim Prime Minister twice. Peres has been a member of 12 cabinets. His political career spanned over 66 years.

He was one of three leaders who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. The others were Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. All three got the prizes for trying to make peace in the Middle East.

Images for kids

Shimon Peres (standing, third from right) with his family, ca. 1930
A picture of 13-year-old Shimon Peres taken in 1936.
Peres (center) with Ezer Weizman and King Mahendra of Nepal in 1958
Prime Minister Peres delivers a speech in front of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, October 2, 1985
Shimon Peres (left) with Yitzhak Rabin (center) and King Hussein of Jordan (right), prior to signing the Israel–Jordan peace treaty.
Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat receiving the Nobel Peace Prize following the Oslo Accords.
Shimon Peres with U.S. President Bill Clinton at the White House, April 1996.
Peres in 2005
Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East (2009)
Shimon Peres meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, May 5, 2009.
Shimon Peres and the Foreign Minister of Brazil, Celso Amorim, meet in Brasília, November 11, 2009
Shimon Peres addressing a gathering of the World Jewish Congress in Jerusalem (2010)
The Great Leaders of the Nation section of Mount Herzl
Peres at the 65th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ceremony with Polish president Lech Kaczyński, 2008