[1] Wiszniew, Poland, is now generally stated as Vishneva, Belarus. "I was born in a small Jewish shtetl that -- during the two wars, the first and the second it was under Polish control -- but otherwise it was Belarus. Russians. And they hated the Poles. They wouldn't speak the language. The place I was born was a very small place, totally Jewish, and we were living neither in Poland nor in Russia. We were living in Israel from the day I was born, even before emigrating." (Shimon Peres, Academy of Achievement interview, 2003).
Wife: Sonya Gelman (two sons, one daughter)
High School: Geula School, Tel Aviv
High School: Youth Village Ben-Shemen (boarding school)
Nobel Peace Prize 1994 (with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin)
Israeli Knesset 1959-present
Israeli Minister Defense
Israeli Minister Foreign
Israeli Minister Finance
Prime Minister of Israel 1984-86
Prime Minister of Israel 1995-96
Academy of Achievement (2003)
Hague Appeal for Peace Honorary Committee
Author of books:
The Next Step (1965)
David's Sling (1970)
And Now Tomorrow (1978)
From These Men (1979)
Entebbe Diary (1991)
The New Middle East (1993)
Battling for Peace (1995)
AKA Shimon Perski