Biography of Shimon Peres http://www.mideastweb.org/bio-peres.htm Shimon Peres was born August 21, 1923 in Vishneva in White Russia (then Poland) near Volozhin, to Yitzhak and Sara Persky. In 1931 his father, Yitzhak Persky, emigrated to Palestine. His family followed two years later. Peres was initially enrolled in the Balfour “High School,” […]
