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Peres lived with his wife Sonia and their daughter in an apartment on the corner of West 95th Street and Riverside while he studied at New York University and the New School.
“It is called the grand opening for innovation and peace center because the idea is that peace and innovation absolutely go together, innovation is an engine of peace, not only of progress.”
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"Whoever threatens us with destruction puts himself in similar danger and in any case will not achieve his goal," Netanyahu vowed.
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On July 3, 1982, about a month into the Lebanon War, Avnery caused a storm when he met Yasser Arafat in the western part of besieged Beirut, and ran an interview with him.
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Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz: "We will be in of control of the envelope around the fence, and the level of terror will drop in the Gaza Strip, as pragmatic forces will rise."
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Haniyeh's choice for his plea for is interesting, since the Kuwaiti and Moroccan leaders are among the least sympathetic to the plight of his people in the Arab world.
“Many Israelis, as well as Jews living all over the world with relatives in Israel, will be able to use these archives to find documentation and pictures of their loved ones."
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"You kidnap Palestinian students from campus and torture them in your jails. You torture your political rivals."
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Rubinger was the Israeli photographer who shot the famous photo of three Israeli paratroopers after the liberation of the Western Wall on the third day of the Six-Day War.
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Isaac Herzog said that 'recently there has been a certain attempt to dim Peres' peace doctrine; his faith in the two-state vision and [his efforts to achieve] a comprehensive peace with our Palestinian neighbors.'
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John Kerry's rant at the Saban Forum was fascinating in that it illuminated everything that is wrong with the supporters of the two-state solution peace process.
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Interestingly, Netanyahu’s most ardent foe these days, Ehud Barak, served the shortest term in office as Prime Minister: eight months and one day.
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The new campaign is banking on the fact that all of Israel's past mainstream politicians have supported the settlement enterprise, even if some of them later became its sworn enemies.
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Officer Mansour was director of public relations and media at the PA military liaison, the unit that coordinates security with Israel.
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Huma Abedin, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, urged former President Bill Clinton in 2009 to reject a speaking invitation before AIPAC, saying, “u really want to consider sending him into that crowd?”
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The attempt to interrogate Lauder suggests police are sitting on solid suspicions against the prime minister, since the permission to detain a foreign dignitary of Lauder's stature likely required the consent of AG Avihai Mandelblit.
The unexpected extended applause.
On this Rosh Hashanah, I send warm greetings from Jerusalem to all the Jews around the world...
I remember him at the table of a French restaurant, when he whispered in my ear, it’s tastes good, but nothing compares to your mother’s salad. To him, Israel’s cucumbers and tomatoes were the finest of delicacies.
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"The court will rule on the severity of his action," says the subheadline on the cover, "but there's no doubt that the single bullet he shot at the terrorist ignited the stormiest debate in Israel's society this year."
An Arab Starts up with a Jew in Montreal about.... his Kippah?
What's the real reason why world leaders, and even Mahmood Abbas are attending Peres' funeral? It may not be why you think. Ari gives his take on the matter.
During a political career that spanned 73 years, Peres served as prime minister, president, and Knesset member for 47 consecutive years, the longest anyone has served in the Israeli parliament. H
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Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres, who took part in establishing Israel's security apparatus and served 48 consecutive years as MK passed away following a stroke.
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Kerry is in the midst of his final attempt to shape the Israel-PA conflict resolution in his image, and he has been going at it with everything he has including the kitchen sink.
Support Migdal Ohr by purchasing letters in the Torah Scroll that will be written in honor of Rabbi Grossman’s 70th Birthday.
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"You don't represent me," Aharish told Ghattas, "nor the hundreds of Arab children who are taking part in coexistence projects sponsored by Shimon Peres, while you are busy spreading hatred, incitement and distance between nations."
Former President Shimon Peres remains sedated and on a respirator but slowly improving, albeit still in critical condition in the ICU at Sheba Hospital.
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MK Ghattas wrote that "Peres is covered from head to toe in our blood, and so we don't hasten to contribute to the collective tribal festival of grief and loss."
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Peres continued his full schedule prior to Monday's procedure and over the weekend participated in an economic conference on Lake Como, Italy.
Netanyahu, Rivlin and Peres enter virtual reality.
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What are the chances that the same journalist, who lives and works in Europe, would be present during two separate terrorist attacks within two weeks? Gutjahr himself appears stunned by this coincidence.
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“What's the greatest mistake of the right wing government?" Herzog joked, answering his own trick question: "That there is no real left wing to blame.
Ever since former Defense Minister Amir Peretz was photographed looked through binoculars with the covers still on, it's become the photo everyone looks for first whenever our political leaders visit an IDF lookout point.
Rivlin also will speak to senior officials and to the Brookings Institution.
Netanyahu called Navon "one of the nation's finest and among its greatest builders…, the scion of the glorious Sephardic Jewish community."
The President of Israel from 1978 to 1983, unlike his predecessors, was born in Israel and unlike his successors, was a respected educator.
A community in Samaria told the Supreme Court it is working through the offices of Peres and Abbes to find a solution to prevent the planned desecration.
The President said, "Settling in the land of Israel is the right of the Jewish people."
George Soros, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg have plopped down at least $1 million to Clinton's super PAC.
The former president was one of 20,000 in Toronto to watch Bono.
Not even Shimon Peres would have been so cold-hearted.
Arafat in 1988 recognized Israel as a Jewish state. Abbas has wanted to delete the word "Jewish." Now Erekat wants to delete the word "Israel."
The French-based telecom company operates in an area of Azerbaijan that the United Nations and US consider occupied territory.
By Shalom Bear
The idea behind Peres & Associates came to life two years or so before the end of President Shimon Peres' term in office, when his team began planning the next phase in his career.
U.S. Secretary of State Kerry calls the Shoah "the most painful and horrific chapter in human history."
By Moshe Herman
The P5 +1 are convinced that Iran is a legitimate negotiating partner. But Dan Diker, host of VOI's National Security, has the opposite idea. Dan joins Yishai in-studio to discuss the folly of the nuclear talks. Then, Ali Jabber is a pseudonym for an Arab who sees Israel as the harbinger of peace, democracy and human rights. He joins Yishai to discuss why so many other Arabs are still mired in the jihadist mindset. Finally, Yishai talks about Israeli diplomat Yehuda Avner, who died recently. Avner worked as an adviser to prime ministers Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, and wrote speeches for prime ministers Golda Meir and Levi Eshkol.
Gere is a guest of Shimon Peres.
Yehuda Avner dedicated his life to the State of Israel.
The former president doesn’t see the connection between living in Israel and remaining Jewish.
A bust depicting former Israeli president Shimon Peres was placed next to sculptures of the former eight presidents in the garden of the President's residence in Jerusalem, on February 01, 2015.
By Rachel Levy
Strange. It wasn't considered as big a deal when it was Shimon Peres who was invited to the White House right before elections in '96.
Pollard hit American where it hurts the most.
This video is hilarious until the end, which wouldn’t be sad if it were true.
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How about a picture of Donald Duck choking anti-Semitism?
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Leftists talk "peace" in Tel Aviv, but Arab family won't accept condolence visit from Peres
Israeli leaders continue to offer condolences to family of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, promise justice will be served
President: Time to show restraint, to be true to our morality, to our hope to live together in peace
Israeli President Shimon Peres received this Congressional Gold Medal during his visit to D.C., on June 26, 2014.
Congress gave Peres a farewell medal, but Israel will not get off so easily.
By Rachel Levy
President Obama told Israeli President Peres that his attorney general will decide whether to free Pollard. But the A-G can't grant clemency.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Peres said, "It is a national responsibility to work to free Pollard, I will speak to the President of the United States on behalf of the people of Israel."
Peres praying for safe return of boys; Apparent computer outage in Washington continues, still no Obama statement
If Peres has outlasted some of his critics and is still considered popular, he cannot outrun history.
By Batya Medad
The position of President of Israel was created to be ceremonial.
President-elect visits Western Wall after Knesset vote; outgoing president calls, says Rivlin has "all the qualities" to lead nation
At 91, most people would be happy to retire. As his career in public office draws to a close, however, is Shimon Peres preparing one last push to resuscitate the failed Oslo process?
Ron Pundak was involved in many leftist "peace" initiatives. Pundak died on Friday.
How do you say “annihilate Israel with a nuclear bomb” in Persian?
The subject of President Shimon Peres’s speech at the Sixth Annual Negev Conference in Sderot on Tuesday was not a surprise, but his contrasting a peaceful-seeking nation with one that is isolated says volumes about his view from the Ivory Tower. After his expressing his delight at the Israeli government’s going along for the ride […]
Shimon Peres, even at the age of 90, cannot get rid of his Polish-rooted Jewish ghetto mentality.
The next presidents of Israel as well as the United States might be women.
President Shimon Peres delivered a Christian New Year’s message enthusiastically proclaiming that Israel “will continue to guarantee access to holy sites for all” in the wake of recent “price tag” attacks on Christian sites. “There is no place for violence in our society, even more so when it targets people or places of faith,” he […]
The real hero who helped prevent mass casualties in Sunday's metropolitan Tel Aviv (Bat Yam) bus bombing was a child who told the bus driver that’s someone had left a bag on the bus, one of the passengers told President Shimon Peres Monday. The Jewish Press reported here that the bus driver, Michael Yoger, insisted […]
President Shimon Peres is under the weather with the flu and will not be able to attend the memorial for Nelson Mandela in South Africa. His absence will make even more obvious the non-appearance of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, whose spokesmen said that complicated and expensive security arrangements are the reasons he will not be […]
Abbas and Peres' mastery of manipulation forced them to profusely mourn the death of Mandela and at the same time robbed them of being able to do a bit of soul searching.
By Shalom Bear
Forget Netanyahu, the media should be looking at President Peres's budget, and what he's been doing with it.
If you really love Israel, get out your Kleenex to wipe the tears as Peres and Netanyahu sing together the epic “You and I, We'll Change to World” by the late Arik Einstein. Lyrics are below so you can sing along and cry.
Famous Israeli Hollywood producer finally admits he was a spy for Israel and helped his country acquire the technology for nuclear weapons
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Elie Wiesel received the President’s Medal of Distinction from Israeli President Shimon Peres in a ceremony in New York Monday night. Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and author of more than 40 books, was awarded Israel’s highest civilian medal for “his unique contribution to the memorial of the Holocaust and in light of his uncompromising […]
President Shimon Peres played to role of Pollyanna following the “P5+1” deal with Iran and said, “This is an interim deal. The success or failure of the deal will be judged by results, not by words.” He then addressed the Iranian people, assuming they have the freedom to listen, and told them, “You are not […]
Shimon Peres is wonderful man. The older he gets, the more he is optimistic – and the more he is detached from reality. He foresees an “Iranian Spring.” Doesn’t he know what happened in Libya and Egypt?
Turkey, long a vacation destination for Israelis, is slowly being emptied of its Turkish Jews.
The political “center” always warps the memory of Rabin with its “peace is made with enemies” agenda, but when Peres spouts the "status quo can’t continue," he can't see it does not exist.
If the Boycott Israel movement were intellectually honest, it would condemn the Nobel Prize judges for awarding Israelis. Let’s see how many pro-boycott academics will snub Israel’s universities.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres called on the Council of Europe to reconsider a resolution condemning male ritual circumcision. In a letter issued Sunday to Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe — a pan-European intergovernmental organization — Peres wrote that he was “sorry to hear” of the resolution. The resolution, which was passed […]
President Shimon Peres and Knesset Members Moshe Feiglin and Avigdor Liberman were shared the same podium Thursday on the 12th anniversary of the assassination of Tourism Minister Rechavem (Ghandi) Ze’evi at the hands of three Arab terrorists in a Jerusalem hotel. “Ghandi,” as he was popularly known, fought in the War for Independence and was […]
By Shalom Bear
The Netanyahu government is contesting an unprecedented decision to commute the sentences of 6 Israeli Arabs who killed IDF soldiers in terror attacks.
Even an elephant wants to give Peres a birthday gift. The President could have used his visit to the Jerusalem Zoo to talk about Noah, but he preferred to speak about –surprise – peace and co-existence.
Barbra Streisand, Bill Clinton and a host of other foreign dignitaries and big-wigs have come and gone for Israeli President Shimon Peres’ 90th birthday, whose big bash cost the taxpayers more than $450,000. Most interesting, Peres was born on August 2, 1923. His 90th birthday according to the Gregorian calendar is six weeks away. On […]
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center are giving an award at their gala to Mandy Patinkin, an American Jewish celebrity who supports economic warfare against Jews living and working in Judea and Samaria.
Well, time to add another genius who let us down to the list. Perhaps the world's best known scientist, Stephen Hawking, has pulled out of a commitment to give a lead lecture at a major international science conference which willl be held in Israel next month. The event is also a celebration of the 90th […]
Miss Israel calls Obama her role model, will ask him to release Pollard. Pollards issue statement asking Israelis to show Obama 'all due respect and honor.'
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Barbra Streisand will make her official performing debut in Israel at the 90th birthday celebration for President Shimon Peres at the Israeli Presidential Conference, where 4,500 people are expected to attend. Streisand is slated to perform at the opening ceremony of the Israeli Presidential Conference on June 18. She has traveled to Israel several times […]
Hizbullah has killed hundreds of civilians and American soldiers in dozens of attacks in 20 years, but the EU has withheld defining it as a terrorist group. Peres and ‘Lawfare” start asking, “Why?”
President Shimon Peres called on the European Union Thursday to face the facts and follow the American lead in blacklisting Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. Speaking at a ceremony on the 93rd anniversary of the death of Zionist pioneer Joseph Trumpeldor, the president cited Hizbullah’s proven involvement in terrorist attacks in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Nigeria. […]
During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Israel, his Israeli counterpart, Shimon Peres, emitted the following pearl of wisdom: “The peace treaty with Egypt saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both sides.”
In meetings Monday with Israeli leaders, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on them to take steps to strengthen the Palestinian Authority. According to a news report, Clinton has received a promise from President Morsi that he would not end the closure of the Gaza Strip. Clinton reiterated that the U.S. "commitment to Israel is rock solid. By strengthening Israel's security we are strengthening U.S. security."
At the recent President's Conference in Jerusalem - though Shimon Peres and others spoke about the dearth of women in professional life in Israel, few spoke about the amazing lack of women presenters at the conference. I counted only about a hand-full. One was Ayaan Hirsi-Ali.
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