Posts Tagged: Shimon Peres
Israeli President Peres: ‘We Are Fortunate that America Was, and Remains, Our Friend and Ally’
Israeli President Shimon Peres attempted to throw water on the fire that is the tense relationship between Israel and Washington in recent weeks. Speaking at the...
French President Hollande to be Feted Upon Arrival in Israel Sunday
French President Francois Hollande can expect to be feted when he arrives in Israel on Sunday after his country's integral role in putting the kabosh...
Belarus Commemorates Former Israeli PM Begin With Statue, Releases Stamps Honoring Zionist Leaders
Former Israeli Prime minister Menachem Begin is being commemorated with a statue in Belarus, the country of his birth, i24 News reported Monday. Begin, born in...
Kerry Tells Peres Peace With Palestinians ‘Is Not Mission Impossible’
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry insisted in Israel on Wednesday with his now trademark optimism that peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority...
The Truth About Oslo
Twice recently, at an Oct. 16 memorial ceremony for the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and at a diplomatic conference on Oct. 24, President Shimon...
Brad Ausmus, Former Israeli Baseball Coach, to be Named MLB Manager
The Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team is set to hire Brad Ausmus as its new manager, according to multiple reports. Ausmus managed Israel's national...
Paula Abdul On Visit to Israel: ‘Most Magnificent Trip I’ve Ever Taken’
Former pop-star and current TV personality Paula Abdul said in an interview Sunday with The Associated Press that her current ongoing visit to Israel is...
Israel to be Fêted at World’s Largest Spanish-Language Book Fair, Shimon Peres to Inaugurate Pavilion
Israeli President Shimon Peres will inaugurate the Israeli pavilion at this year's Guadalajara International Book Fair during his state visit to Mexico at the end...
Paula Abdul Tells Israeli President Peres She is ‘Overwhelmed’ by Visit
Israeli President Shimon Peres met Tuesday with international music and dance star Paula Abdul, who is visiting Israel as a guest of the...
Peres Rewards U.S. Company for Brain Signal Reading Implant
JNS.org - Israel President Shimon Peres awarded a $1 million prize Tuesday to BrainGate, a U.S.-based research team developing the technology to allow people who are...
Council of Europe Responds to Peres: Female Genital Mutilation and Circumcision Not ‘On Equal Footing’
Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, responded on Wednesday to a letter sent earlier this week by Israeli President Shimon Peres asking Jagland to...
Israeli President Peres First Official Guest of Dutch King Willem-Alexander
Dutch King Willem-Alexander hosted Israeli President Shimon Peres at his official residence, Noordeinde Palace, Tuesday, as his first official guest there since ascending the throne...
Report: Israel’s Peres Says Government ‘Will Consider’ Ratifying International Treaty on Chemical Weapons
Israeli President Shimon Peres said his government "will consider" ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Associated Press reported. The agreement forbids the production, stockpiling or...
Obama at the UN: New Policy or Same Old Mistakes?
U.S. President Barack Obama reintroduced his New Middle East vision during his September 25, 2013 speech at the U.N. General Assembly: "Let me take this...
