Many lives of Israel’s last founding father - Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres was a gifted leader, an eloquent speaker, and a source of ideas. But most important, he was a leader who had a vision and a message, writes Itamar Rabinovich

IN 2006, a year before Shimon Peres was elected Israel’s president, Michael Bar-Zohar published the Hebrew edition of his Peres biography. It was aptly titled Like a Phoenix: by then, Peres had been active in Israeli politics and public life for 60 years.

Peres had great successes and humiliating failures — and went through several incarnations.