World News Editor PARIS —Shimon Peres is recognized as a ... weapons program launched in the mid-1950s was France, where the young Peres—still in his thirties and serving as the director ...

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Ofer Bronchtein, a former advisor to Shimon Peres, gave FRANCE 24 an insider’s account of his working experience with the late Israeli statesman during one of the most hopeful periods in the ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Shimon Peres, the former defense hawk turned ... In that capacity he expanded Israeli arms purchases from France and later helped manage the 1956 Sinai Campaign.

On the question of Shimon Peres, the Arabs beg to differ ... and Bill Clinton — as well as Prince Charles and leaders of France, Mexico, Germany and Canada, to name a few, plus top envoys ...

It would be like bumping into Shimon Peres. To fully grasp his place in ... of Israel’s deterrent-power strategy, relations with France and industrial development. As defense minister, he ...

Today the name Shimon Peres encapsulates the legacy of a Nobel ... At a villa in Sèvres, France, where Israeli, British and French officials had gathered to finalize planning for the campaign ...

Shimon Peres, who died on Tuesday at the age of ninety-three, was a one-of-a-kind biological and historical phenomenon. After all, other than Peres, can we name a single person who played a major ...

JTA — Former Israeli President Shimon Peres said he is confident in France’s ability to fight anti-Semitism on its own soil. Immigration to Israel, he said, should be encouraged for positive ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Former Israeli President Shimon Peres said he is confident in France’s ability to fight anti-Semitism on its own soil. Immigration to Israel, he said, should be encouraged for ...