* 1923 – Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, 9th President of Israel

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

* Shimon Peres

In January 2010, King Abdullah of Jordan, after a meeting with the Israeli president Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum in Davos, declared that his country does not want to rule the West Bank and that " the two-state solution " to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the only viable option.

In 2001, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres went so far as to dismiss it as " allegations ".

Michael Ledeen, a consultant of National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, requested assistance from Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres for help in the sale of arms to Iran.

* 1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.

After the 1984 elections had proved inconclusive with neither the Alignment nor Likud able to form a government, a national unity government was formed with a rotating prime ministership – Shimon Peres took the first two years, and was replaced by Shamir midway through the Knesset term.

Yigal Allon served as Interim Prime Minister following Levi Eshkol's death, as did Shimon Peres following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

In January 2007, in his last months as vice premier, current President Shimon Peres paid a high-profile visit to the capital city of Doha.

He disagreed strongly with the Labour governments of 1992 – 1996 ( led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres ) and 1999 – 2001 ( Ehud Barak ), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996 – 1999 and supported it from the outside.

* Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat meet Wednesday, and agree to pursue a more permanent ceasefire.

In 1994 Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for the negotiations at Oslo.

The following year, Arafat and Rabin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Shimon Peres.

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 1996 – Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat & Klaus Schwab

* Prime Minister Shimon Peres ( Israel )

* August 2 – Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel, President of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

In 1994, Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat.

Following Golda Meir's resignation in April 1974, Rabin was elected party leader, after he defeated Shimon Peres.

From 1984 to 1990, he served as Minister of Defence in several national unity governments led by prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres.

In 1992 Rabin was elected as chairman of the Labour Party, winning against Shimon Peres.

For his role in the creation of the Oslo Accords, Rabin was awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres.

After an emergency cabinet meeting, Israel's foreign minister, Shimon Peres, was appointed as acting Israeli prime minister.

Shimon Peres was born Szymon Perski on 2 August 1923 in Wiszniew, Poland ( now Vishnyeva, Belarus ), to Yitzhak ( 1896 – 1962 ) and Sara ( b. 1905 née Meltzer ) Perski.

He learned Greek himself in order to become useful to his people and Shimon, then under the Roman proconsuls, that language having become, to a considerable extent, the rival of the Hebrew even in prayer ( Yer.

While the traditional majority view in religious Judaism has been that the teachings of Kabbalah were revealed by God to Biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses and were then transmitted orally from the Biblical era until its redaction by Shimon ben Yochai, modern academic analysis of the Zohar, such as that by the 20th century religious historian Gershom Scholem, has theorized that De Leon was the actual author.

The Assyrian Christians on the other hand, came to similar conclusion but migrated in stages following each and every eruption of a political crisis with the regime in which boundaries they lived or following each conflict with their Muslim, Turkish, Arabs or Kurdish neighbors, or following the departure or expulsion of their patriarch Mar Shimon in 1933, first to Cyprus and then to the United States.

In 1986, King Hassan II invited then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres for talks, becoming the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader.

The party then remained part of the Alignment until after the 1984 elections, when it broke away due to anger over Shimon Peres's decision to form a national unity government with Likud, taking six seats with it ( later reduced to five when Muhammed Wattad defected to Hadash ).

In the 1960s, the community invited Frankfurt-born Rabbi Shimon Schwab, then of Baltimore, to assist with rabbinical duties.

A Coalition deal between the Labour Alignment and Likud stipulated that Shimon Peres would be Prime Minister for the first two years of the Knesset term ( out of four years ), with Yitzhak Shamir serving as the designated Acting Prime Minister, and then swap places with Shamir for the next two.

The major political parties, right-wing Likud party, then headed by Yitzhak Shamir, and Labour, then headed by Shimon Peres, did not gain enough seats in parliament, during the general election, to form a governing majority coalition, which enabled this coalition agreement to take place.

It is popularly believed that if one donates or offers 18 rotels of liquid refreshment ( grape juice, wine, soda or even water ) to those attending the celebrations at Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's tomb on Lag BaOmer, then the giver will be granted miraculous salvation.

In 1996, a year after the assassination of p. m. Yitzhak Rabin from the labor party, the Likud, headed by the opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, was united with 2 parties: Gesher and Tzomet and ran in the election against the Labor party, headed by acting P. M. Shimon Peres.

For many years Oz was identified with the Israeli Labor Party and was close to its leader Shimon Peres.

On 8 November 2005, Shimon Peres was replaced as the leader of the Labor party by the election of left-wing Histadrut union leader Amir Peretz in an internal Labor party ballot.

In November 2005, Amir Peretz, leader of the social-democratic One Nation which had merged into Labor, was elected chairman of the party, defeating Shimon Peres.

In 2006, several members of the ILP left to join the new centrist grouping, Kadima ; these included former Labor leader Shimon Peres, Haim Ramon, and Dalia Itzik.

* Shimon Peres 1977-1992 ( also leader of the Alignment )

Despite voices from her own party, calling her to withdraw from the race in favor of ex-labor leader Shimon Peres, Avital remained in the race.

Earlier in 1996, he also helped Benjamin Netanyahu oust Shimon Perez as leader of Israel.

Shimon ( Simon ) Schwab ( December 30, 1908 – February 13, 1995 ) was an Orthodox rabbi and communal leader in Germany and the United States.