Former Israeli President and PM Shimon Peres passes away
Q. Which Nobel prize winner passed away on 28th Sept 2016 at the age of 93, and was also the founding father of Israeli peace accord?- Published on 28 Sep 16a. David Ben-Gurion
b. Yasser Arafat
c. Shimon Peres
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Shimon Peres
Nobel prize winning visionary Shimon Peres pushed his country towards peace through the Israeli accord.
- The former Israeli President and Prime Minister whose life story mirrored that of the Jewish state passed away on 28th Sept 2016
- He was 93 at the time of his death following a stroke
- He had a 70 year long political career and his public life was credited with leading Israel through its most defining moments.
- He disentangled troops from Lebanon and rescued the economy from triple digit inflation in the 1980s
- He also was a protege of Israeli founding father David Ben Gurion
- He was first elected to the Parliament in 1959 and held every major Cabinet post including defence, finance and foreign affairs
- He also held three brief stints as the PM
- His key role in the first Israel Palestine peace accord earned him a Nobel Prize.
- Shimon Peres was born on Aug. 2, 1923, in Vishneva, then part of Poland. He moved to pre-state Palestine in 1934 with his immediate family.
- Rising quickly through Labour Party ranks, he became a top aide to Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister and a man Peres once called “the greatest Jew of our time.”
- At 29, he was the youngest person to serve as director of Israel’s Defence Ministry, and is credited with arming Israel’s military almost from scratch.
- He authored as many as 10 books
