Shimon Peres

Polish-born Israeli statesman Shimon Peres served twice as the prime minister of Israel before being elected as the country's ninth President in 2007. He has also served as the leader of the Israel Labour Party multiple times. In 1993, Peres helped negotiate the peace agreement the Oslo Accords with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat; the three men were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994.