Died Shimon Peres. That Is, The Persian – Republic

Shimon Peres has held all the key political positions in Israel has become, and it’s not just the head of the government, was Minister of defense, head of diplomacy, Finance Minister, and finally President. Participated in the creation of the state of Israel. Perfectly combined patriotism with openness and a willingness to make concessions that today in relation to the head of Israel, it seems unlikely. He received the Nobel peace Prize for an agreement with the Palestinians, which over 20 years is little left.

how important was for the country, for the region and the world, shows a list of VIPs, who on Friday will appear at his funeral. President Barack Obama and candidate for his successor, Hillary Clinton, French President Francois Hollande, Prime Ministers of Canada and Australia. It was not clear who of the German Chancellor, the President or both? The current is Andrzej Duda, the President of the country, somewhere in the other borders – was Shimon Peres. Born in 1923 as Simon in Persian Wiszniewie (in the region of nowogródek, now Belarus), which, as he recalled, ” was a “Jewish settlement of former Poland”. As you know, you left the future of Israel. Grandfather and other family members who were in Wiszniewie died during the Holocaust, “huddled close to each other in the wooden synagogue and burned alive.”

Quotes are taken of the most touching occurrence Peresa, President, in Poland – in the Senate in 2008. Recalled that already in the XVII century Russia was the most important center of life in Europe, here fate was for the Jews “łaskawszy than in other European countries.” All this ended during world war II. Ultimately, after an anti-Semitic nagonce in 1968.

Poland, he said, is the homeland of most Jewish parties, which then became Israel. 61 of 120 deputies of the first convocation of the Knesset came from our country. Peres is the last of the great Israeli politicians who were born in Poland. His place in history comparable to what had other Polish Israel – David Ben-Gurion and Menachem begin.