Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Israel in connection with the death of former President Shimon Peres. The head of state noted his achievements on settlement of the situation in the middle East. Shimon Peres will be buried in Jerusalem on September 30. The Nobel peace prize was 93.
The last 2 weeks he spent in the clinic.

Perez was born and raised in Western Belarus, fond of poetry, was a staunch pacifist, but the main business of his life was politics.

On the evening of 27 September, the hospital called kin. The patient's condition deteriorated, the MRI showed new bleeding in the brain. Two weeks of fighting. A fighter by nature, he is in intensive care clinic "Sheba" was not going to give up. His son and doctor, Professor Walden reported that the September 13, suffered a massive stroke Shimon Peres responds with a handshake at the greeting of the son, can raise their hands, respond to external stimuli. Doctors and family were hoping that even with a partial loss of capacity, but Perez will live, even though he knew that there is a limit to the wonders and skill, even such a cardiac surgeon, as Rafi Walden. Shimon Peres was born in the town of Cherry - now it is the Minsk oblast of Belarus in 1923. At the age of 11 with her mother moved to Palestine. In 1942, his family, his grandfather, Rabbi Zvi Meltzer, along with all residents of Cherry will burn Sonderkommando of the SS and locked in a wooden barn. The young assistant Ben Gurion, brilliantly educated Shimon Peres with 25 years been in the thick of Israeli politics. He made enormous efforts for the construction of the Israeli nuclear center.

At 47, he became the owner of a parliamentary mandate. 14 times Minister, Prime Minister twice, the President. In 1994 he, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat in Oslo was awarded the Nobel peace prize. After a few months in the step from Peres in tel Aviv on the area of the kings of Israel zealot Thal Amir killed his long-term ally of Rabin. 13 Jun 2007 Shimon Peres became President of Israel. Folding powers, one of the oldest and most respected politicians in the world said that he sees how the world has changed for his age, and he was good.
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