About Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the president of Israel from 2007 to 2014. He was a member of twelve cabinets and represented five political parties in a political career spanning 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and except for three months out of office in early 2006, served as a member of the Knesset continuously until he was elected president in 2007. Serving in the Knesset for 48 years, Peres is the longest serving member in the Knesset's history. At the time of his retirement from politics in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state and was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation, as well as the last Prime Minister to make aliyah rather than being born on territory that would become Israel.
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Awards & Honors
Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize
Order of Stara Planina
Order for Merits to Lithuania
Order of Mono
Philadelphia Liberty Medal
Solomon Bublick Award
Commander of the Legion of Honour
Knight of the Legion of Honour
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Presidential Medal of Freedom
Nobel Peace Prize
Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
Planetary Consciousness Prize
Congressional Gold Medal
Steiger Award
Osgar
Order of the Sun of Peru
Freedom Award
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Fear
Honorary doctor of the University of Liège
Honorary doctor of the Bilkent University
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class
Golden Plate Award
honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala
honorary doctorate of Tours University
honorary citizen of Ashdod
honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University
honorary doctor of University College London
Global Citizen Awards
