Shimon Peres: A Life in Pictures

Israeli President Shimon Peres during a visit to the southern Israeli town of Sderot, July 6, 2014. Peres, one of the pillars of Israel’s founding generation, passed away at age 93. AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov
Among the spectators at a paratroops' display in Tel Aviv: second row from left: Shimon Peres, director general of the Israeli defense ministry; Major General Haim Laskow, Israeli army chief of staff; Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, former French Prime Minister visiting Israel, and David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, June 23, 1958. AP Photo
Shimon Peres, leader of the opposition Labor Party, seated underneath David Ben-Gurion's picture in his Tel Aviv office, Sept. 16, 1983. AP Photo/Anat Givon
Shimon Peres, Feb. 8, 2016. AP Photo/Oded Balilty
Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres delivers a speech at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, Nov. 12, 2005, during a memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In the background is a picture of Rabin. AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
Shimon Peres and Ariel Sharon visit Ras-Sudar in Egypt, 1975. This was an important location in the Six Day War of 1967. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (R) talks with Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Aug. 27,1974, during military maneuvers in Tel Aviv. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres enjoys a bedouin style meal under a traditional nomad's tent in the Negev desert on Jan. 29, 1985. ESAIAS BAITEL/AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat greeting then Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres on May 25,1979 in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. Two months earlier, in Washington, DC, Israel and Egypt signed their historic peace treaty, making Egypt the first Arab nation to recognize the Jewish State. Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO via Getty Images
Israeli President Shimon Peres sits under a ceremonial sword and mace at the Mansion House in London, where he received an honorary doctorate, Nov. 18, 2008. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres addresses Israeli paratroops after the completion of Operation Entebbe, July 1976. The raid took place on July 3, 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. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
President Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Israeli President Shimon Peres in the East Room of the White House, June 13, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Reed
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with their shared Nobel Peace Prize awards in Oslo, Dec. 10, 1994. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen
Israeli President Shimon Peres during a welcome ceremony held by Chinese president Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, April 8, 2014. AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan
President Ronald Reagan meets Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in the White House Sept. 15, 1986. Ya'akov Saar/GPO via Getty Images
Shimon Peres sits on the Iron Throne during the opening of the 'Game of Thrones' exhibition in Tel Aviv, April 2015. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Shimon Peres speaks to the Jewish community of Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, March 8, 2012. REUTERS/Phil McCarten
Israel's Prime Minister Shimon Peres, July 15, 1986. REUTERS/Nati Harnik/GPO
Shimon Peres with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Jerusalem, March 2009. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Israel's President Shimon Peres in Ottawa, May 2012. REUTERS/Blair Gable
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chats with Israeli President Shimon Peres during a ceremony marking Remembrance Day for the fallen soldiers on Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, in Jerusalem, April 15, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Hollander/Pool
Former South African President Nelson Mandela bids farewell to Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres after a meeting at Mandela's home in Johannesburg, Sept. 3, 2002. AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo
Former Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres talks to supporters during Labour Party central committee's elections in Kfar Saba, June 19, 2003. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Deputy Premier Shimon Peres during a session in the Knesset, Feb. 16, 2005. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
Israeli Premier Shimon Peres with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after a two-day summit meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, Sept. 12, 1986. AP Photo/Paola Crociani
Former West Germany defense minister Franz-Josef Strauss is flanked by Israel's defense minister Shimon Peres and Israeli agricultural minister Gen. Moshe Dayan, in Tel Aviv, May 27, 1963. AP Photo
Yitzhak Rabin receives congratulations from Information Minister Shimon Peres, his opponent in the selection of the replacement for retiring Premier Golda Meir, in Tel Aviv, April 22, 1974. AP Photo/Nash
Labor Party leader Shimon Peres meets with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir on Aug. 6, 1984 in Jerusalem. AP Photo/Anat Givon
Premier Designate Shimon Peres voting on Sept.10, 1984 in favor of a coalition agreement with the Likud Bloc for a bipartisan goverment. The Labor Party's central committee adopted the agreement by vote of 394-166. AP Photo/Anat Givon
President Ronald Reagan walks with the new Prime Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres at the White House, Oct. 9, 1984. AP Photo/Bob Daugherty
Pope Francis with Israeli President Shimon Peres at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, May 25, 2014. AP Photo/Oded Balilty
A surprised and pleased looking Shimon Peres is going to be kissed by a resident of Or Yehunda, near Tel Aviv, Oct. 16, 1988 when during a street-naming ceremony the woman spontaneously ran over to him. AP Photo/Anat Givon
Shimon Peres during an interview with Reuters at his residence in Jerusalem, June 2013. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Israel's former President Shimon Peres, Feb. 8, 2016. AP Photo/Oded Balilty