RIP Shimon Peres, native of Valozhyn district. Israel’s former president passes away

The state of 93-year-old Shimon Peres deteriorated after he had suffered a stroke, sources close to him reported this week.

On September 13, the politician was taken to a hospital near Tel Aviv. From this moment Perez was in a coma, his lungs were artificially ventilated. After two weeks of hospitalization, he died on 28 September.

Shimon Peres was born on August 2, 1923 in the village of Vishneva of Poland’s Wołożyn powiat (now – Valozhyn district, Minsk region)

He was the 9th president of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres also served twice as Prime Minister and was a member of 12 cabinets in his 66-year political career. Peres was elected to the Knesset in 1959 and, except for a short break in 2006, served as an MP until he was elected president.

He held several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after Israel’s War for Independence. Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for solving the conflict with Palestina.

The funeral will be held on September 30.

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