A year ago, 93-year-old Shimon Peres, President of Israel and Nobel laureate, whose life was cut short today, came to Kyiv. His fiery speech at the YES forum was a revelation and inspiration for everyone. Perez spoke of the courage and audacity of hope: “We dreamed of our...

“If your dreams are greater than your achievements, then you are still young. If it’s the other way around, you’re old,” this is how Shimon Peres concluded his speech made a couple of years ago. Following his own formula, the 93-year-old Israeli patriarch left very young. At night…

The departure of a political long-liver, 93-year-old Shimon Peres, is in some ways the end of an era for Israel. The era of the founding fathers of the Jewish State. A native of the Western Belarusian village of Vishnevo, the future ninth president of Israel began his journey as a “Komsomol member of Zionism” on the eve of World War II, rising through the ranks...