Shimon peres biography
Shimon peres...
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres was one of Israel’s longest-serving and most distinguished politicians. He was the first person to have served as both Prime Minister and President of the Jewish State.
Peres was born on August 2, 1923, in Wieniawa, Poland (now Vishniev in Belarus), and immigrated to Mandatory Palestine with his family at the age of eleven.
Shimon peres biography
He grew up in Tel Aviv and attended the agricultural high school at Ben Shemen.
Peres spent several years in Kibbutz Geva and Kibbutz Alumot, of which he was one of the founders, and in 1943 was elected Secretary of the Labor Zionist youth movement.
In 1944, he returned to Kibbutz Alumot, where he worked as a farmer and shepherd.
In 1947, after having been conscripted by David Ben-Gurion and Levi Eshkol to the Haganah, Peres was assigned responsibility for manpower and arms, an activity which he continued during the early part of Israel’s War of Independence.
A year later, in 1948, Peres was appointed head of Israel’s navy and, at