A mosque in a village outside the West Bank city of Ramallah was defaced and set on fire early Thursday, the third day of extremist Jewish violence that has prompted widespread condemnation and new law enforcement steps by the Israeli government. The attack came after the Israeli Army moved in overnight to remove two structures at an unauthorized...
JERUSALEM -- King Abdullah II of Jordan played host on Monday to Shimon Peres, the president of Israel, in an effort to make progress on the stubborn Palestinian question at a time of regional diplomatic uncertainty and fragmentation. Last week, the king made his first visit in a decade to the West Bank to see Mahmoud Abbas, president of the...
JERUSALEM -- When Israel's octogenarian president, Shimon Peres, opened his Israeli Presidential Conference here on Tuesday, he chose an unlikely partner to stand by his side: Shakira, the Colombian pop star who is partly of Lebanese descent, performed last month in Beirut and was once (wrongly) accused in an Internet rumor of saying she would...
Shimon Peres (født 2. august 1923) er en israelsk politiker, tidligere premierminister og nuværende præsident i Israel. Han kommer oprindelig fra Wienawa, Polen (nu Vishniev i Hviderusland). 1934 udvandrede hans familie til Tel Aviv. Han var Israels 8. premierminister fra 1984-86 og igen fra 1995-96, samt udenrigsminister fra 2001-02. Den 15. juli 2007 tiltrådte han som Israels præsident.
Han modtog sammen med Yitzhak Rabin og Yasser Arafat Nobels Fredspris I 1994.
Peres blev i 1959 valgt ind i Knesset for Mapei. Fra 1959-1965 var han vice-forsvarsminister. Han blev tvunget til at træde tilbage pga. af hans rolle i Lavon skandalen og forlod derefter Mapei, for at danne et nyt parti, Rafi. Partiet indgik i 1968 sammen med Mapei i koalitionspartiet Alignment (forløberen til Arbejderpartiet). Fold ud