Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
President Shimon Peres has turned down a request to pardon the Halamish brothers, Yitzchak, 28, and Danny, 35, who are serving 8 and 7 month prison sentences after being found guilty of attacking Arabs in a Gush Etzion incident. The two came to the rescue of Jews being attacked by an Arab mob but were later [...]
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Hillel Fendel President Shimon Peres has refused a request to pardon Itzik and Danny Halamish, two brothers who were convicted earlier this year of attacking Arab marauders who attacked them. Danny, 35, was sentenced to seven months in prison, but his request for parole has already been granted, and he is set to be freed in a month. His brother Itzik, 28, was sentenced to eight months, and the Parole...
Middle East Analysis (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
The point that Iranian nuclear development was an issue of world concern was made by Shimon Peres repeatedly. For some reason, U.S. politicians keep acting as though it is only an issue of Israeli security. This column by a Saudi, as well as similar sentiments by other Gulf Arabs, illustrates the real danger posed by Iran. But nobody is willing to do the job themselves. They are only willing to give...
baithak (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
In the finest traditions of journalism Hamid Mir citing unnamed sources writes: Israeli President Shimon Peres is desperately trying to help his friend President Pervez Musharraf and is putting indirect pressure on the coalition government through different diplomatic channels not to impeach him, Foreign Office sources reveal. The sources claim that Peres wants a safe exit for Musharraf and he is also...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
President Shimon Peres getting a minyan together for the reading of Eicha. Here at Barry's blogging at the Olympics. (Kippah tip: Muqata )
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
President Shimon Peres invited Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao to the next President's Conference in Israel, after holding meetings with the two leaders in Beijin...
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Rabbi Freundlich giving President Peres a kipaAs already reported that Israel’s President Shimon Peres who is in Beijing for the opening of the Lympics attended Kinos and Megilas Eicha at the minyan organized by Chabad led by the shliach there, Rabbi Shimon Freundlich. Also attending were staff of the embassy, representatives of the Jewish community and [...]
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
President Shimon Peres is reportedly meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Beijing, a day after he joined around 80 world leaders and 91,000 excited spectators at the Olympic opening c...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
There's a new songwriter in cyberspace: Israeli President Shimon Peres. And composers from countries including Israel's enemy Iran are writing music for the lyrics to his song, "Ray of Hope."
OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
JERUSALEM (AP) — There’s a new songwriter in cyberspace: Israeli President Shimon Peres. And composers from countries including Iran are writing music for the lyrics to his song, “Ray of Hope.”…
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
There's a new songwriter in cyberspace: Israeli President Shimon Peres. And composers from countries including Iran are writing music for the lyrics to his song, "Ray of Hope."
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Beijing, China - Religiously observant Jews, who may have been concerned about where the President of Israel might commemorate the Tisha B’av destruction of the First and Second Temples when he is in Beijing this week, can rest easy. President Shimon Peres, who will be in the Chinese capital as guest of the Chinese Government for [...]
English Webster (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Another reader-inspired one for you (you guys are getting good at this). Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Israeli President Shimon Peres. Thanks to Shaul. ShareThis
IRIS Blog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Speculation is raging that Olmert is about to announce his resignation at an abruptly announced press conference. There's only one way that could be true--if he wants to annoint the next Prime Minister in exchange for some major personal benefit (like the promise of a Shimon Peres pardon). He still has the power to hand over the reigns of power the way he earned it--by becoming acting PM first and...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Hillel Fendel President Shimon Peres, following Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Vice Prime Minister Chaim Ramon, has become the latest mainstream politician to intimate that Jerusalem must be divided. Peres paid a condolence call this morning (Tuesday) to the family of David Shriki, a policeman who died of wounds he suffered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem earlier this month. Shriki,...
