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Topic: president’s residence

April 16, 2013
10:14 am

Watch: Independence Day celebration at the President’s Residence

Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz among dignitaries at official state ceremony

March 20, 2013
11:29 pm

President Barack Obama and President Shimon Peres plant a tree during a welcoming ceremony for Obama at Peres's residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (Photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

‘Obama’s tree is in place at President’s Residence’

Peres’s office denies that Magnolia was dug up to meet Israeli agricultural laws; its roots are in plastic netting, awaiting inspection next week

By Times of Israel staff

March 18, 2013
12:36 pm

Barack Obama visiting Yad Vashem as a senator in 2008. (photo credit: Meir Azulay/Pool/Flash90)

Where Obama’s visiting in Israel, where he isn’t, and why

Why is the president spending hours at the Israel Museum but not going near the Western Wall? What’s he doing in Bethlehem? A primer on a tour through a diplomatic minefield

By Raphael Ahren

March 17, 2013
9:35 pm

Chef Shalom Kadosh (center) poses with chefs of world leaders in Tel Aviv, February 2012. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Chefs clash over Obama’s menu

With little hope of progress on the peace process, Israelis and Palestinians fight over President Obama’s palate

By Elhanan Miller

February 18, 2013
5:25 pm

US President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres at the White House in Washington June 13, 2012. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Peres to give Obama Medal of Distinction

President will honor his American counterpart for standing with Israel ‘in times of crisis’

By Raphael Ahren

February 2, 2013
8:22 pm

President Shimon Peres signs the formal document charging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming the next government, at a ceremony at the President's Residence, February 02, 2013. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO/FLASH90)

Netanyahu vows to form unity government, stop Iran

Endorsed by 82 of the 120 incoming MKS, prime minister formally charged by President Peres with assembling a new coalition

By Aaron Kalman and Times of Israel staff

January 31, 2013
11:56 pm

President Shimon Peres and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meet at the president's residence in Jerusalem on July 16, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Brendan Smialowski)

Peres thanks Clinton for Israel support

President commends outgoing secretary of state for her ‘wisdom and dedication’

By Philip Podolsky

January 31, 2013
5:15 pm

President Shimon Peres meets with United Torah Judaism's Yaakov Litzman, in Jerusalem, January 31 (photo credit: Mark Nayman/GPO/Flash90)

Peres to wait till Saturday night to ask Netanyahu to form new government

75 incoming MKs from four parties back PM; UTJ says it supports anyone who backs its agenda, but asks president to greenlight formal coalition talks only after Shabbat

By Aaron Kalman

October 17, 2012
2:31 pm

New Egyptian Ambassador Salem, left, with President Peres in his Jerusalem residence (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

New Egyptian ambassador brings Israel ‘message of peace’

‘We are really working for mutual trust and transparency,’ Atef Salem tells Peres in Jerusalem, bring letter from Morsi to his ‘great and good friend’; Jordanian envoy also presents credentials

By Raphael Ahren

October 14, 2012
4:38 pm

Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio De Aguiar Patriota, left, and President Shimon Peres (photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO)

Peres scolds visiting Brazilian FM for hosting Ahmadinejad

Antonio Patriota says Brazil views ‘with grave concern’ Israel’s threats to attack Iran

By Raphael Ahren

October 3, 2012
6:56 pm

President Peres's bodyguards remove a sign that fell on him (photo credit: Sharon Marks Altshul)

President Peres has a close call

Moments of anxiety as mishap sees sign and large plant fall on 89-year-old statesman

By Greg Tepper

April 30, 2012
3:29 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak participating in the Independence Day event during which, unbeknownst to them, nonkosher meat was served. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rabbinate cancels caterer’s kashrut certification after presidential fete foul-up

Pri Haaretz company apparently served nonkosher meat at Peres’s Independence Day shindig

By Stuart Winer