Former Israeli president Shimon Peres – a life in pictures

Shimon Peres has died at the age of 93. The Nobel peace prize laureate served the state of Israel for more than six decades, including twice as prime minister and once as president, and was the last surviving figure associated with its founding

Main image: Shimon Peres speaks during an interview with Associated Press in Jerusalem. Photograph: Dan Balilty/AP

  • Shimon Peres with his wife, Sonia, and one of their children at Alumot kibbutz
    A very young Peres holding a baby and his wife Sonia - both smiling at the baby

  • Peres (right), the then deputy defence minister, is greeted by defence attache Col Hiram (centre) and E Evron, both from the Israeli embassy, at a London airport in February 1964
    Peres with two other men, all in dark suits

  • The ambassador to Washington, Yitzhak Rabin (left), and Peres, then information minister, go to vote in Tel Aviv on 22 April 1974 before the Labor party central committee chose Rabin over Peres to form a new government
    Peres and another man, both smiling and in light-coloured shirts, at the front of a group of people

  • Peres (left) and Ariel Sharon visit Ras-Sudar in Egypt in 1975. It had been an important location in the six-day war of 1967
    Peres and a man in military uniform standing looking in different directions

  • The then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (centre) talks to his aide, Ariel Sharon, on board a plane n December 1975; Peres, then a cabinet minister, sits nearby
    Peres, wearing headphones and reading a book, sits to the right of two men talking, one in sunglasses

  • From left, politicians Avraham Sharir, Peres, Yitzhak Navon and Yitzhak Shamir, hear the news that Navon has been voted Israel’s fifth president in 1978
    Four men including Peres sit on a sofa; all are in smart suits and ties. Peres and Navon are smiling.

  • Shimon Peres, the then prime minister, and his wife, Sonia, travel by helicopter to Alumot kibbutz, south of the Sea of Galilee, in 1985
    Peres and his wife on a plane, smiling at each other

  • Peres, at the time foreign minister, shakes hands with the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, after signing the historic Oslo peace accord in Washington, DC in 1993. Rabin, then Israeli prime minister, and the US president, Bill Clinton, look on
    Peres shakes hands with a man in a keffiyeh while others in more conservative suits look on

  • Peres is received as prime minister by the emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in Doha in April 1996 – the first visit by an Israeli leader to Qatar
    Peres with a man in Arab dress, both sitting on gilt chairs

  • Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak (centre) speaks to Peres in the Knesset in Jerusalem in July 1999
    Peres conferring in parliament with a man in suit and tie

  • Peres, then minister of regional cooperation and the One Israel candidate for the presidency, attends a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in July 2000
    Peres at a large table

  • Peres as foreign minister talks at a press briefing with his Jordanian counterpart, Abdulilah al-Khatib, after a meeting in Jerusalem in April 2001
    Men and microphones in silhouette

  • Former South African president Nelson Mandela says farewell to Peres, then foreign minister, after a meeting at Mandela’s home in Johannesburg in September 2002
    Peres and Mandela exchange a kiss on the cheek

  • Peres (left) and the then prime minister Ariel Sharon attend a ceremony on the border with Jordan near the port city of Eilat in February 2002, where a checkpoint was named to commemorate the assassinated Yitzhak Rabin
    Peres looks down and Sharon looks sombre; both in dark suits

  • Pope Benedict XVI embraces President Peres during a ceremony at his residence in Jerusalem in May 2009
    Pope Benedict XVI embraces President Peres

  • The singer Barbra Streisand meets Peres at his 90th birthday party at his Jerusalem home on 17 June 2013
    Peres with Streisand

  • Peres during an interview with Associated Press in Jerusalem
    Peres

  • Model Naomi Campbell and Peres at an International Women’s Day conference at the Peres Centre for Peace in Tel Aviv on 8 March 2016
    Model Naomi Campbell and Peres at an International Women’s Day conference at the Peres Centre for Peace in Tel Aviv on 8 March 2016

  • Journalists gather outside the Sheba medical centre at Tel HaShomer, near Tel Aviv, on 13 September 2016, after Peres is taken in for treatment
    People in silhouette at a fence

  • Peres’s son Chemi speaks to the media at the hospital entrance.
    A man surrounded by journalists with microphones
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