Shimon Peres news and stories by mail.com

Shimon Peres

Stephen Hawking backs boycott of Israeli academics
British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June, citing his belief that he should ...
Arab League sweetens Israel-Palestinian peace plan
The Arab League's decision to sweeten its decade-old proposal offering comprehensive peace with Israel has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...
Israeli president to meet new pope next week
The Israeli president's office says President Shimon Peres will meet the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, next week. A statement ...
Israel praises Azerbaijan's stand in Iran crisis
Israel's president on Monday praised Azerbaijan for playing a key role in countering Iran's influence in the Middle East as the Muslim country's ...
President: Israel to release ailing Palestinian
Israel's president says he has approved the release of an ailing Palestinian prisoner on humanitarian grounds. Shimon Peres noted in a statement that ...
Israelis celebrate 65 years of independence
Israelis celebrated 65 years of independence on Tuesday, with over a million people pouring into national parks despite unusually blustery weather.
Jewish youths march in honor of Holocaust victims
Thousands of youths from Israel and other countries marched in silence Monday at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi death camp in Poland, to pay ...
Israel comes to standstill to remember Holocaust
Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes Monday as sirens pierced the air in an annual ritual to remember the 6 million Jews ...
Israel begins annual Holocaust memorial day
Israel dedicated its annual memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust to mark 70 years to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, a symbol of ...
Erdogan: No quick restoration of ties with Israel
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested "normalization" of ties with Israel would take time, hinting that Turkey wanted to ensure the ...
Israeli president: We trust US policy on Iran
Israeli President Shimon Peres (shee-MOHN' PEHR'-ehs) says his nation trusts the U.S. policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Israeli president handed lineup for government
Israel's prime minister has notified the country's president that he has succeeded in forming a government. Benjamin Netanyahu presented the lineup ...
Pope Francis reaches out to Jews
Like his predecessor, Pope Francis reached out to Rome's Jewish community at the very start of his pontificate, pledging to continue to strengthen the ...
New pope's views bind simplicity with 'complexity'
At gatherings of Latin American bishops, then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was often a star speaker about economic inequities in a profit-driven world.
Israel welcomes new pope as friend of the Jews
Israeli leaders are welcoming the selection of Pope Francis and calling him a friend of the Jewish people. President Shimon Peres invited the new pope ...
Israeli president: Iran is world's greatest danger
The president of Israel on Tuesday called the Iranian regime "the greatest danger to peace in the world" and appealed to EU lawmakers to formally ...
Netanyahu gets 2 more weeks to form coalition
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday granted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu another two weeks to form a governing coalition, after Netanyahu ...
First Gaza rocket in 3 months rattles cease-fire
Gaza militants on Tuesday fired a rocket into Israel for the first time in three months, rattling a cross-border truce that has held since Israel's ...