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“What water is to agriculture, armaments are to security. Israel suffers from a shortage of both,” Israel’s Former President Shimon Peres Dies
Shimon Peres, one of the founding fathers of the israel nation and former Israeli prime minister has died. The elder statesman who is famously remembered for saying, “What water is to agriculture, armaments are to security died at the age of 93 years.
He is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and British honorary knight. Shimon Peres, succumbed to a major stroke two weeks ago, and subsequently died in a Tel Aviv hospital.
Shimon Peres political career spanned a long phase, stretching as far back as being involved from way before the founding of the Jewish state in 1948 to serving in twelve governments and also becoming Israel’s prime minister twice.
The veteran Israeli politician was originally Israel’s prime minister in 1959, before becoming an MP and eventually being accredited the ceremonial role of Irael’s national president from 2007 to 2014.
Shimon Peres, political stint included serving as Israeli’s finance minister and bringing down Israeli’s inflation from 400% down to 16%.
The elder statesman served as president beyond his 90th birthday.
He was married to his Sonya for 66 years until her death in 2011. The couple had three children.
Shimon Peres was born in Poland in 1923, before his family migrated to Tel Aviv in the 1930s when the land was still under British rule.
He married his late wife Sonya and their marriage lasted 66 years before she died in 2011 having had three children together.
Shimon Peres is affectionately remembered as a ‘Hawk, turned Dove’ having been originally for the Israeli settlements in the Palestinian nation but later shifting his views as he then saw this occupation as a stumbling bloc to a quest for peace in the area, for which he was awarded a Nobel peace prize in 1994. He was active in reacing a political settlement towards peace between the Israeli’s and Palestinians. By Sibusiso Ngwenya
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