JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MAY 1: (ISRAEL OUT) In this handout image provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, President Shimon Peres speaks with outstanding soldiers during preparations for the ceremony to be held on Independence Day at the presidential residence May 1, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. The holiday commemorates the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence and is celebrated this year on May 6. (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO via Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (R) talks with Defence Minister Shimon Peres on August 27, 1974 during military maneuvers in Tel Aviv. AFP PHOTO / AFP / IPPA / STRINGER
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Photo taken on July 8, 1975 at Ben Gourion airport in Tel Aviv shows Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (L) smoking before his departure for Bonn. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)
Shimon Peres Visits The Netherlands
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - SEPTEMBER 29: Israeli President Shimon Peres visits the Portuguese Synagogue on September 29, 2013 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Peres is on an official four day visit to the Netherlands. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)
Israeli President Shimon Peres Celebrates 90th Birthday
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JUNE 18: (ISRAEL OUT) (L -R) Singer Barbra Streisand hugs Israeli President Shimon Peres attend Peres' 90th birthday gala June 18, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. The celebration also marks the start of the Israeli Presidential Conference, a gathering of global figures in Jerusalem. (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO via Getty Images)
President Obama's Offical Visit To Israel And The West Bank Day Two
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL 0 MARCH 21: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) receives the President's Medal for his contribution to Israel's security from Israeli Preisident Shimon Peres during a state dinnner at Peres' official residence March 21, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. This is Obama's first visit as president to the region and his itinerary includes meetings with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. (Photo by Yin Dongxun-Pool/Getty Images)
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Israeli Foreign minister Shimon Peres raises his fist when reacting to opposition parliament members during a debate at the Knesset (parliament) 09 September 1993, over the government's nearly closed agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on a first autonomy for Palestinians in Gaza and Jericho. (YOAV LEMMER/AFP/Getty Images)
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An archive photo taken on February 11, 1978 in Salzburg shows a meeting between President Anwar Sadat of Egypt (R) and Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres. (ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres enjoys a bedouin style meal under a traditional nomad's tant on January 29, 1985. It is Peres first visit to this minority who numbers some 35.000 people and lives in the Negev desert, south of Israel. ESAIAS BAITEL/AFP/Getty Images
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Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres looks on Israeli Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin as they fly to Lebanon on November 8, 1984. ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images
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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (R) gets a warm hug from former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres after his speech to the second annual meeting of the board of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv 11 January, where he praised Peres for his endless work to get the Middle East peace process back on the right track. SVEN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images
17th Anniversary Of the Assassination Of Yitzhak Rabin
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 28: In this GPO handout, Israeli President Shimon Peres speaks at the grave of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during a memorial ceremony marking the 17th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, October 28, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel. Rabin who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, was assassinated by right-wing Israeli radical Yigal Amir. (Photo by Kobi Gideon / GPO via Getty Images)
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Yasser Arafat (R), President of Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) addresses 04 May 1994 in Cairo (from left) Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Russian Foreign Minister Vladimir Kosyrev, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa (behind) and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as they pressure the PLO chairman who refused to sign a chapter of the Gaza-Jericho autonomy agreement. At right, US Secretary of State Warren Christopher looks on. PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Visits Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JULY 29: In this handout photo provided by the GPO, Israeli President Shimon Peres welcomes US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney before a meeting on July 29, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel. Mitt Romney arrives in Tel Aviv as part of a three-nation foreign tour which also includes visits to Poland and Great Britain. (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)
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Israeli President Shimon Peres meets with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (not seen) in Jerusalem on July 16, 2012. Clinton arrived in Israel for top-level talks with Israeli officials expected to focus on Iran's nuclear programme and the stalled peace process. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages
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Israeli President Shimon Peres and outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (L) make a toast during the swearing-in ceremony of Israel's new knesset in Jerusalem on February 24, 2009. Peres urged the Jewish state's new parliament to make peace efforts with the Palestinians its top priority as MPs convened for their first session since a February 10 election. JIM HOLLANDER/AFP/Getty Images
Shimon Peres Visiting Russia's President Vladimir Puting
Visiting Russia's President Vladimir Putin (below) sits as his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres walks behind prior to an official diner in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2012. Putin is on a rare trip to Israel where he is expected to hold talks on the situation in Syria and Iran's nuclear program. LIOR MIZRAHI/AFP/GettyImages
Peres Honored With US Presidential Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 13: U.S. President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Israeli President Shimon Peres during a dinner in his honor in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, on June 13, 2012 in Washington, D.C. Peres is the second Israeli, after Natan Sharansky, to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (Photo by Martin H. Simon-Pool/Getty Images)
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From L-R: Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, U.S. President Bill Clinton, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, join their hands against "terrorism" during a family photo at the end of the anti-terrorism summit in Sharm el Sheikh, 13 March 1996. LUKE FRAZZA/AFP/Getty Images
President Obama Meets With Israeli President Shimon Peres At The White House
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 05: Israeli President Shimon Peres speaks to the media after meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on April 5, 2011 in Washington, DC. President Obama and President Peres spoke about issues pertaining to Israel's security as well as expanding cooperation on security matters with the United States. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Shimon Peres Visits Israeli Police Counterterrorist Unit
UNKNOWN, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 3: In this handout image provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli President Shimon Peres visits the Israeli Police counterterrorist unit on February 3, 2011 in an unidentified location in Israel. In talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this week, Peres, in response to the unrest in Egypt and neighboring countries, warned of the rise of religious dictatorships in the region. (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via Getty Images)
Israeli President Shimon Peres Visits Berlin
BERLIN - JANUARY 26: Israeli President Shimon Peres drinks at a gala dinner given by German President Horst Koehler in honour of the Israeli President on January 26, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Peres is on an official four-day visit to Germany and will address the Bundestag lower house of Parliament. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
Israeli President Shimon Peres Visits Kazakhstan
ASTENA, KAZAKSTAN - JUNE 30: (ISRAEL OUT) In this handout photo released by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli President Shimon Peres attends a welcome ceremony on June 30, 2009 in Astena, Kazakhstan. President Peres will visit both Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan on a four-day trip to advance Israel's ties with those countries. (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via Getty Images)
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Former Israeli President Shimon Peres, celebrated around the world as a Nobel Prize-winning visionary who pushed his country toward peace during a remarkable seven-decade career, died on September 28, 2016 from complications from a stroke. He was 93. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Thirty Years Since Signing Of Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
BEERSHEVA, ISRAEL - MAY 25: This handout file photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) on March 25, 2009, shows visiting Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (L) greeting then Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres on May 25, 1979 in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. Two months earlier, on March 26, 1979 in Washington, DC, Israel and Egypt signed their historic peace treaty, making Egypt the first Arab nation to recognize the Jewish State. (Photo by Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO via Getty Images)
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Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel puts on a yarmulke as he speaks during the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations in New York September 24, 2008. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Bush Addresses "Facing Tomorrow" Presidential Conference
JERUSALEM - MAY 14: Israeli President Shimon Peres embraces US President George W. Bush after Peres's address to the "Facing Tomorrow" presidential conference May 14, 2008 in Jerusalem. Bush and Peres's speeches to the conference came just hours after a Palestinian Qassam rocket slammed into a crowded shopping mall in Ashkelon in southern Israel, wounding dozens, including four seriously. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)
Shimon Peres Visits Israeli Air Force Base
UNSPECIFIED, ISRAEL - DECEMBER 12: In this handout image supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli President Shimon Peres visits an Air Force base on December 12, 2007 in Israel. (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)
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In this handout made available by the Israeli Government Press Office 17 October 2007, Israeli President Shimon Peres tours the Golan Heights. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni calls for new U.N. Security Council resolution to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. (Nati Shohat/AFP/Getty Images)
Peres And Paratroops
Israeli Defence Minister Shimon Peres (right) addresses Israeli paratroops after the completion of Operation Entebbe, July 1976. The raid took place on 3rd July 1976 and resulted in the rescue, by Israeli special forces, of 100 hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Madonna And Guy Ritchie Meet Israeli President Shimon Peres
JERUSALEM - SEPTEMBER 15: In this handout provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Madonna poses with Israeli President Shimon Peres September 15, 2007 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)
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ROME - SEPTEMBER 5: (ISRAEL OUT) In this handout image provided by the Israeli Governmnet Press Office, Israeli President Shimon Peres (R) meets Italian Jews in a synagogue September 5, 2007 in Rome, Italy. This is Peres' first diplomatic travel abroad since being elected on June 13 and plans on having an audience with the Pope in Lake Cuomo. (Photo by Amos BenGershom/Government Press Office via Getty Images)
Shimon Peres Elected Israel's Ninth President
JERUSALEM - JUNE 13: Veteran Israeli politician and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres pauses and smiles as he speaks to Israeli lawmakers in the Chagall hall in the Knesset (Parliament) after his election victory to become Israel's ninth president on June 13, 2007 in Jerusalem, Israel. A large tapestry showing Biblical scenes, including Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, is behind, done by artist Marc Chagall. (Photo by Jim Hollander-Pool/Getty Images)
Shimon Peres Takes Lead In Israel Presidential Voting
JERUSALEM - JUNE 13:Veteran Israeli politician and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres sits at the cabinet area of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, as votes are counted in the presidential election on June 13, 2007 in Jerusalem, Israel. Peres' two rivals withdrew from the race after Peres won the first round of voting by Israeli lawmakers. As the sole candidate in the second round of voting Peres is set to become Israeli's ninth president. (Photo by Jim Hollander-Pool/Getty Images)
Israeli Election Campaign Enters Final Week
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - MARCH 21: (ISRAEL OUT) Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres is interviewed during a launch party for his new book, "The Phoenix" at a hotel March 21, 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Peres is running alongside Olmert in the newly-formed centrist Kadima party for next week's March 28 general elections. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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Barcelona, SPAIN: Former Israeli Labour leader Shimon Peres, with FC Barcelona's president Joan Laporta (C) and British actor Sean Connery (L) hold their Barcelona's jersey during a visit to the football stadium of the Spanish club FC Barcelona, 29 November 2005, before a friendly football match between an Israeli-Palestine team and FC Barcelona. STR/AFP/Getty Images
38th Anniversary Of Israel's 1967 Occupation Of Gaza
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 13, 1972: In this handout photo from the GPO, Israeli Transportation Minister Shimon Peres (3rd R) with Southern Command General Ariel Sharon at his side, watches as mayor Rushad A'Shava cut the ribbon opening of the new pier at the Palestinian port, some 4 1/2 years after the 1967 Six-Day War, January 13, 1972 in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip. Thirty-eight years after Israel captured the Gaza Strip from the Egyptians during the campaign, the Jewish state looks poised to leave the populous Palestinian territory as the now Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan approaches its August 15, 2005 implementation. (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)
Richard Gere With Shimon Peres
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL: US actor Richard Gere (L) talks to Israeli vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres at his office in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv 04 April 2005. Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei and Israel's deputy premier Shimon Peres held secret talks last week in the highest level meeting between the two sides since a landmark summit two months ago, a Palestinian official and reports said today. MICHAEL KREMER/AFP/Getty Images
Shimon Peres With Yasser Arafat
OSLO, NORWAY - MAY 18: OSLO, NOR - MAY 18: PLO Chariman Yasser Arafat (L) shakes hands with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres 18 May 1994 at a ceremony honoring Norway's role in the Israeli-PLO peace accord. Arafat said his recent call for a Moslem holy war was not a call for violence but a call to strive for complete Middle East peace. SCANFOTO/AFP/Getty Images
Shimon Peres: Agreement Signed - Palestinian Autonomy In Occupied Territories
WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 13: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs the agreement on Palestinian autonomy in the occupied territories on September 13, 1993 during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C. (L-R) Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, unidentified aide, U.S. President Bill Clinton, Peres, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and PLO political director Mahmoud Abbas. This agreement came after months of secret talks in Oslo, Norway, creating framework for autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the beginning of a final peace agreement scheduled for 1999. DAVID AKE/AFP/Getty Images
Shimon Peres With Bill Clinton
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 30: Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres (L) answers a question at a press conference after signing an agreement with US President Bill Clinton (R) aimed at strengthening the two countries' fight against terrorism. The agreement calls for the US to supply Israel with advanced equipment for bomb detection and for closer intelligence cooperation between the two countries. LUKE FRAZZA/AFP/Getty Images
Shimon Peres With Yasser Arafat
GAZA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ISRAEL - SEPTEMBER 26: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (R) and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (L) shake hands before their meeting at the Gaza international airport 26 September 2001. In a breakthrough for the moribund Middle East peace process, Peres and Arafat shook hands before going into talks to hammer out a lasting ceasefire. AHMED JADALLAH/AFP/Getty Images
Shimon Peres With Yasser Arafat
RAMALLAH, -: (FILES)- Picture taken 11 January 1999 shows Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat greeting former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Arafat died 04 November 2004 in a hospital in France, Israeli private television and military radio reported. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images
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TABA, EGYPT: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres meets the press early 10 August as he emerges from a meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt. Peres and Arafat last met 07 August to discuss extending the Palestinian autonomy accord to the occupied West Bank. Peres indicated that "significant progress" had been made during the talks and that the parties were "overcoming many obstacles." SVEN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images
Ronald Reagan With Shimon Peres
WASHINGTON, DC: (FILE PHOTO) US President Ronald Reagan (R) meets Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in the White House September 15, 1986 in Washington, DC. Reagan, the nation's longest living president, battled Alzheimer's disease for the past decade and passed away age 93, June 5, 2004 at his home in Bel Air, California. (Photo by Ya'akov Saar/GPO via Getty Images)
Peres And Sharon
Israeli politicians Shimon Peres (left) and Ariel Sharon visit Ras-Sudar in Egypt, 1975. This was an important location in the Six Day War of 1967. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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