102 years ago today, on August 21, 1923 (July 10, 1923 in the lunar calendar), Shimon Peres, the current President of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was born. Shimon Peres, Israeli politician. Born on August 21, 1923 in a small village in Poland (now Belarus), he moved to Palestine with his family in 1924 and came to what was then the British Mandate of Israel in 1934. In 1946, he attended the 22nd World Zionist Congress in Switzerland. In 1948, he served as the head of naval affairs of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. From 1952 to 1959, he served as the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. From 1959 to 1965, he served as the Deputy Minister of Defense. In 1965, he established the Israeli Workers' Party with Ben-Gurion and served as General Secretary. In 1969, he served as Minister of Economic Development and "Refugee" Resettlement in the Occupied Territories. In 1970, he served as Minister of Post and Transport. In March 1974, he served as Minister of Information and in June as Minister of Defense. In 1975, he participated in the negotiations on the disengagement of Egyptian-Israeli forces. In April 1977, he was elected Chairperson of the Israeli Labor Party. In September 1984, he served as Prime Minister. In October 1986, he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. In December 1988, he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. In July 1992, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. After Rabin was killed on November 4, 1995, he served as Acting Prime Minister of Israel. In November, he served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. In June 1997, he served as Chairperson of the Labor Party. In June 1999, he In July 1999, he served as Israel's Minister of Regional Cooperation. In March 2001, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. In September, he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. He resigned in October 2002. In February 2003, he served as the interim speaker of the Israeli parliament. In June, after the resignation of Labor Party Chairperson Mitzner, he became the chairperson of the Labor Party. On November 30, 2005, he announced that he would quit the Labor Party and join the Kadima Party. In the Israeli Knesset elections held on June 13, 2007, he was elected as the ninth president of Israel and was sworn in on July 15 of the same year. In September 1993, UNESCO awarded him the "Bovani Peace Prize". In 1994, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Kitzshak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for his Middle East policy. His major works include The Next Stage (1965), David's Bullet (1970), Tomorrow is Now (1978), Because of These People (1979), and The New Genesis.