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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 371

Chemi Peres

The Jerusalem light rail in downtown Jerusalem, September 20, 2017. (Stuart Winer/Times of Israel)
December 21, 2017, 1:46 pm
Teva workers block Jerusalem light rail in protest over layoffs
Police move demonstrators off tracks to resume service; protesters gather outside home of board member in Ra’anana
By ToI Staff and Shoshanna Solomon
The three children of former president Shimon Peres at a memorial service for marking a year since his death, September 14, 2017. (Josef Avi Yair Engel)
September 14, 2017, 5:37 pm
One year after death, Peres remembered as pioneer and incessant dreamer
At series of memorial events, world dignitaries salute the former president’s dreams for peace and 65-year contribution to Israel
By Raoul Wootliff
Thousands of marchers take part in the 'Celebrate Israel' parade in New York on June 4, 2017. (Courtesy)
June 4, 2017, 10:48 pm
40,000 people show support for Israel at Manhattan parade
New York governor declares first Sunday in June as Shimon Peres Day in honor of ‘one of Israel’s founding fathers’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Shimon Peres with children at the Peres Center for Peace (Peres Center for Peace Archives)
May 1, 2017, 12:51 pm
Marking Israel’s first Independence Day without dreamer-in-chief Shimon Peres
Son Chemi Peres says his father left a compass and tools to help the country follow his path of making technology, not war
By Shoshanna Solomon
Mika Almog, granddaughter of the late former Israeli president Shimon Peres, lights a menorah candle as Rabbi Rachel Isaacs says a blessing during a Hanukkah reception in The East Room at The White House on December 14, 2016 in Washington, DC, with Chemi Peres, and President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. (AFP/ ZACH GIBSON)
December 15, 2016, 4:39 am
At final Hanukkah party, Obama extols religious freedom, ignores elephant in room
Five weeks before Trump assumes power, president tells American Jews: ‘We look forward to working with you on the other side’
By Eric Cortellessa
President Barack Obama holds up Kylie Schmitter as she, alongside her sister Lainey Schmitter, lights the menorah during the first of two Hanukkah receptions in the White House, on Thursday, December 5, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)
December 12, 2016, 7:47 pm
Peres family to light heirloom menorah at Obama’s last Hanukkah party
Son and grandson of late president will take part in candle lighting ceremony using menorah that survived Holocaust
By JTA
Chemi Peres, son of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres, pauses in front of his father's coffin after speaking during his funeral on September 30, 2016, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
December 6, 2016, 8:05 am
Peres’s family to light White House Hanukkah candles
Son and grandaughter of deceased statesman to join first family in celebrating Jewish festival with Holocaust-era menorah
By JTA
Chemi Peres, son of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres, pauses in front of his father's coffin after speaking during his funeral on September 30, 2016, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
December 5, 2016, 6:49 am
Peres’s son has lessons for a new New Middle East
Chemi Peres, son of the late Shimon Peres, is certain, despite war and terrorism, that his father’s unquenchable faith in human agency will soon prove itself in the Arab world
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on screen, being interviewed by Richard Sandler at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly, November 15, 2016. (Ron Sachs)
November 16, 2016, 12:29 am
Netanyahu calls on Obama not to back any new peace moves as term ends
In video address to Jewish leaders, PM also calls to end public pressure on him by American Jews to fully implement deal on egalitarian prayer at Western Wall
By JTA and ToI Staff
Italian President Sergio Mattarella pays his respects at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on October 30, 2016 (Yad Vashem/Twitter)
October 30, 2016, 11:41 pm
Italian president visits Yad Vashem, Peres’s grave
Sergio Mattarella continues with state visit despite devastating earthquake in his country
By ToI Staff
A man mourns at the grave of former President Shimon Peres after his state funeral at Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 2, 2016, 6:48 pm
Hundreds answer Peres family shiva call, pay last respects at grave
Mourners from across Israel gather at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Jaffa peace center
By ToI Staff
US President Barack Obama hands a tissue to a weeping Chemi Peres, at the funeral of his father, former President Shimon Peres, September 30, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
October 2, 2016, 4:03 am
Obama consoled Peres’s son with tissue, hug
Footage from Friday funeral shows US president, seated next to Chemi Peres, trying to help the weeping son
By ToI Staff
Chemi Peres, son of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres, pauses in front of his father's coffin after speaking during his funeral on September 30, 2016, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
October 1, 2016, 11:07 pm
At start of shiva, Peres family invites all Israelis to pay respects
Hundreds visit former president’s next of kin on first night of traditional week of mourning at Jaffa’s Peres Center for Peace
By ToI Staff and AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with US President Barack Obama at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery during the funeral of former president Shimon Peres on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Pool/Menahem Kahana)
September 30, 2016, 1:03 pm
Obama remembers Peres as 20th century ‘giant’ determined for peace
US president says Abbas’s presence a ‘reminder of the unfinished business of peace’; recalls Peres’s insistence ‘Jewish people were not born to rule another people’
By ToI Staff
Shimon Peres's son Chemi Peres talks to the media outside the Sheba Medical Center, near Tel Aviv, on September 13, 2016 (Flash90)
September 28, 2016, 9:21 am
Shimon Peres ‘worked tirelessly for Israel,’ says his son
Chemi Peres speaks of his father’s love for the people of Israel, and his life’s work for peace and a better tomorrow
By ToI Staff
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