Shimon Peres

{{Audio|He-Shimon_Peres.ogg|Shimon Peres}} (Hebrew ????????? ??????) (born August 21, 1923), an Israeli politician, is the head of the Israeli Labour Party and served as 8th Prime Minister of Israel from 1984-1986 and 1995-1996 and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel from 2001-2002, and became Vice Premier in a coalition under Ariel Sharon at the start of 2005. In 1994 Peres won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords.

External links

• Shimon Peres - Knesset page
• Peres Center for Peace website
• Shimon Peres biography at http://www.nobel.se
• Biography of Shimon Peres at
• Zionism and Israel Information Center Biography Page
• Shimon Peres biography at the Jewish Virtual Library
• BBC - Sharon seals new Israel coalition