Shimon Peres
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Sep 14, 2026
Joseph GelmanGUEST
Very, very interesting.
Joseph GelmanGUEST
At one point, he suggested that we meet with President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Netanyahu, to just interview them about him to get some kind of a background.
Joseph GelmanGUEST
We said, okay, we'll agree to do that.
Joseph GelmanGUEST
And Netanyahu did not agree to meet with us, but Shimon Peres did.
Joseph GelmanGUEST
And Shimon Peres was the godfather, if you will.
Joseph GelmanGUEST
It was like the General Leslie Grove of the You know, the Israel nuclear program,
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not the Oppenheimer, but the lesbian group.
Joseph GelmanGUEST
And, you know, we met with Shimon Peres at the president's office in Jerusalem,
Dan RavivHOST
And you bracket that event with a big hopeful development.
Dan RavivHOST
30 years earlier, September 1993, on the White House lawn, Bill Clinton proudly hosted Israel's leaders, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, who signed the Oslo Accords with the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, who was thought to be putting aside his terrorist past to negotiate for Palestinian independence.
Dan RavivHOST
The Oslo Accords, a first step.
Dan RavivHOST
So Mark Schulman, what made you think of these two events as historical bookends? The terror of October 7th and the Gaza war that followed, But starting in 1993 with the apparently positive event, Oslo.
Chelsea HandlerGUEST
I've been to these places.
Chelsea HandlerGUEST
I interviewed Shimon Peres years ago for my Net- one of my Netflix documentaries, and I saw it in real life, like, that they're living behind a fence.
Chelsea HandlerGUEST
I went and met with the mayor of Ramallah at the time, this woman, and she was...
Chelsea HandlerGUEST
It was awful, what I saw.
Amanda Borschel-DanHOST
So when you entered the Knesset, just to give a little more background, what was Kadima?
Yohanan PlesnerGUEST
We're taking our viewers, our listeners, 20 years back, Kadima was founded in late 2005 by the former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who basically broke away from the Likud party, and alongside with the late Shimon Peres, they created the centrist Kadima outfit that was supposed to lead Israel from the middle, a hard line on security, and they and a pragmatic party that was supposed to bring the country together.
Yohanan PlesnerGUEST
We won.
Yohanan PlesnerGUEST
We were formed.
Scott HortonGUEST
point and through the 1990s, and including and explicitly Operation Grapes of Wrath.
Scott HortonGUEST
After Rabin was assassinated by a Netanyahu fan and Shimon Peres came to power, he launched a reinvasion called Grapes of Wrath in 1996, which...
Scott HortonGUEST
Osama bin Laden ranted about in his first declaration of war, which is part of what was called declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.
Scott HortonGUEST
And then it has on the first page, he goes on and on all about the Kana massacre that was actually inflicted by Naftali Bennett, the former and future prime minister of Israel, who was the artillery officer who called in a strike on a UN shelter and killed 106 women and children.
Yoash DvirGUEST
1924.
Yoash DvirGUEST
And as Shimon Peres, the late Shimon Peres said, the former president said, luckily for Israel that the Technion was built before the state of Israel.
Yoash DvirGUEST
Today, we have the only food engineering faculty in Israel and the only space engineering faculty in Israel.
Yoash DvirGUEST
So aeronautics, everything that flies in the air from missiles to airplanes to drones, all the engineers that do that in Israel come from the Technion.
Yohanan PlesnerGUEST
20 years back, Kadima was founded in late 2005 by the former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who basically broke away from the Likud party.
Yohanan PlesnerGUEST
And alongside with the late Shimon Peres, they created the centrist Kadima outfit that was supposed to lead Israel from the middle, a hard line on security and security and a pragmatic party that was supposed to bring the country together.
Yohanan PlesnerGUEST
We won, we were formed, Ariel Sharon got a stroke, but we nevertheless ran within three months of our formation to the 2006 election led by Prime Minister Olmert.
Yohanan PlesnerGUEST
We won the election and were the ruling party of Israel between 2006 and 2009.
Noa LeviHOST
Initial investigations suggest this was not a terrorist attack.
Noa LeviHOST
Finally, newly revealed documents from a secret meeting in November nineteen ninety-three between then Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's King Hussein show how the two leaders helped lay crucial groundwork for the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, marking what the Peres Center for Peace calls a testament for peace.
Noa LeviHOST
I'm Noah Levi.
Noa LeviHOST
Thank you for listening to Israel Today Ongoing War Report.
Noa LeviHOST
The court's decision on whether the party secretariat's vote on these slots will be secret or open is seen as critical to the internal approval process.
Noa LeviHOST
On a historical note, newly revealed documents from a secret November nineteen ninety-three meeting between then Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's King Hussein offer insight into the groundwork laid for the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty.
Noa LeviHOST
Released by the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, the documents detail candid discussions where King Hussein expressed urgency to advance an agreement, stating, "Perhaps I have only a year or two left.
Noa LeviHOST
I will put everything on the line." Peres presented a vision for regional economic cooperation, highlighting a dynamic partnership between the leaders.
Gadi ZeigHOST
Yemen's Houthis say they will announce a broad military operation deep inside Saudi territory.
Gadi ZeigHOST
Newly revealed documents show how a secret 1993 meeting between Shimon Peres and Jordan's King Hussein helped pave the way for the Israel-Jordan peace treaty.
Gadi ZeigHOST
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says Israeli clearance of rubble in Gaza could destroy evidence of alleged atrocity crimes and prevent the recovery of human remains.
Gadi ZeigHOST
And Smotrich is calling for the expulsion of Britain's ambassador to Israel following reports that the UK plans to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Gadi ZeigHOST
The Saudi-led coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen vowed to respond firmly to the latest outbreak of hostilities.
Gadi ZeigHOST
Its spokesperson described the escalation as dangerous, saying the Houthis had attacked civilian and economic entities.
Gadi ZeigHOST
Turning to Israel and Jordan, newly revealed documents from a secret November 1993 meeting between then Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's King Hussein show how the two leaders helped lay some of the early groundwork for the Israel-Jordan peace treaty.
Gadi ZeigHOST
The meeting was held under the king's palace in Amman under strict secrecy, and according to the records, Peres's appearance was even altered to prevent identification.
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