Shimon Peres
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 Shimon Peres facts

• Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and he was a member of twelve cabinets in a political career spanning nearly 70 years
• Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President, serving in the role for another seven years
• At the time of his retirement in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state
• He was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation
• From a young age, he was renowned for his oratorical brilliance, and was chosen as a protégé by David Ben Gurion, Israel's founding father
• He began his political career in the late 1940s, holding several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952 which he attained at the age of 28, and Director-General from 1953 until 1959
• In 1956, he took part in the historic negotiations on the Protocol of Sèvres described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as the "highest form of statesmanship"
• In 1963, he held negotiations with U
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