A group of political and technology leaders attended the inauguration of the Israeli Innovation Center at the Peres Center of Peace, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Among the high-profile dignitaries from the worlds of politics and technology included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; China’s Vice President Wang Qishan; the...

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Representatives of more than 70 nations, including President Barack Obama, attended the funeral of Shimon Peres, Israel’s ninth president and one of its founding fathers, in Jerusalem on Friday. Peres died Wednesday morning at the age of 93 after suffering a stroke two weeks earlier. The presence of so many foreign dignitaries at the...

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Iraqi Kurds held a memorial service for former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday, hours after the veteran statesman passed away at the age of 93, according to various Kurdish news sources. Kurds in the Duhok region, which is north of Mosul in Iraq, reportedly held a half hour service in honor...

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World leaders across the globe continue to pay tribute to former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres, who passed away early Wednesday at the age of 93. President Barack Obama described “my friend Shimon” as one of the “few people who we share this world with who change the course of human...

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Shimon Peres symbolized possibility. He embodied the daring idea that the impossible could be made possible. It wasn’t blind faith that led him on this path. It was experience. In his life he witnessed time and again how ideas and dreams, previously deemed insane, became taken-for-granted reality. Primarily among these...

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The Israel Project Mourns the Passing of Shimon Peres The Israel Project (TIP) today deeply mourns the passing of Shimon Peres. The last of Israel’s founding fathers, Peres contributed decisively to Israel’s security in its vulnerable early years, became its leading voice for peace later on, and ultimately served as...

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#ShimonPeres did more with his time on Earth than most people could accomplish in 3 or 4 lifetimes. — Peter Roskam (@PeterRoskam) September 28, 2016 Shimon Peres, the former prime minister and president of the State of Israel, has died at the age of 93. One of the founding fathers...

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Shimon Peres, the Nobel Prize-winning former Prime Minister and President of Israel, died Wednesday morning local time at the age of 93. He entered the hospital September 13 after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. The last of Israel’s living political leaders who had been involved in the founding of the Jewish state, Peres was...

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A day after memorializing fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism, Israelis marked the 68th anniversary of the founding of the modern Jewish state with countrywide festivities on Thursday. Yom Ha’atzmaut, or Independence Day, commemorates the Israeli declaration of independence on May 14, 1948, following the British withdrawal from Mandatory Palestine....

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Despite the threat of arrest, former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres traveled to South Africa to deliver the keynote address at a pro-Israel event Sunday night. The 92-year-old Peres was undeterred by threats from South Africa’s Muslim Lawyers Association to have him arrested and prosecuted for war crimes. South African Jewish leaders...

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