Shimon Peres starts official visit to Bucharest on Wednesday
Shimon Peres, a Nobel prize for peace laureate in 1994, is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel. During his 66-year political career, Peres served as thePrime Minister of Israel and has been a member of 12 cabinets. He has been the president of Israel since 2007. Shimon Peres, born Szymon Perski in 1923 in Poland, is a Harvard graduate. He has written several books starting the 60s. Among the most well known is Battling for Peace: a memoir, which was published in 1995, a year after Peres got the Nobel prize for Peace.