* 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.

Historians Shimon Naveh and Richard Overy reject the idea that blitzkrieg was a military doctrine.

It was compiled by Shimon ha-Darshan in the 13th century CE and is collected from over 50 other midrashic works.

De Leon ascribed the work to Shimon bar Yochai, a rabbi of the 2nd century during the Roman persecution who, according to Jewish legend, hid in a cave for thirteen years studying the Torah and was inspired by the Prophet Elijah to write the Zohar.

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.

Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.

This view simultaneously believes that the Zohar was not written by Shimon bar Yochai, but was a holy work because it consisted of his principles.

Within Orthodox Judaism the traditional view that Shimon bar Yochai was the author is maintained.

" Ketem Paz ," was written by Rabbi Shimon Lavi of Libya.

Peres was sworn in as President on 15 July 2007. Shimon Peres meeting with Barack Obama in the Oval Office.

Lavon tried to fix the blame on Shimon Peres, who was the secretary general of the defense ministry, and Gibli for insubordination and criminal negligence.

The mayor is Shimon Lankri, who was re-elected in 2011.

Alexander was succeeded by his widow, Salome Alexandra, whose brother was Shimon ben Shetach, a leading Pharisee.

The Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, was interested and sent the highest-ranking nonpolitical representative and a military lawyer to continue the negotiations.

" Shimon Peres, then leader of the Labour opposition, was critical of the assassination, suggesting that it " could lead to an escalation of terror.

Shimon Avidan ( Hebrew: שמעון אבידן ; February 7, 1911 – September 11, 1994 ), born Siegbert Koch ( Hebrew: זיגברט קוך ), was an Israeli soldier and officer, the commander of the Givati Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Israeli poet Shimon Adaf was born in Sderot, as well as the actor and entertainer Maor Cohen.

Simon Dibnow was born Shimon Meyerovich Dubnow ( Шимон Меерович Дубнов ) to a large poor family in the Belarusian town of Mstsislaw ( Mahilyow Voblast ).

* Shimon Ullman ( born 1948 ), Israeli computer scientist

* Shimon Kagan ( born 1942 ), Israeli chess master

Rabbi Yerachmiel Yehuda Myer Kalish ( 1901 – 1976 ) of Amshinov, a son of Rabbi Shimon Sholom, was born in Przysucha ( Pshiskhe ), Poland.

Shimon Schwab was born and grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

* Shimon Peres ( born 1923 ), Israeli Prime Minister and President