Shimon Peres
(1923-)

Israeli Politician
9th President of Israel (3 terms as Prime Minister)

1993 Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize
1994 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
1996 Four Freedoms Awards
2003 Academy of Achievers Achiever
2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom

birthdate: August 21
birthplace:
Vishniev, Poland (now Belarus)

QUOTES

If you want to serve the future, don't be afraid to belong to a minority.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.

 

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