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President Peres: I Have Always Been a Man of Faith


peres.jpgAddressing the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony on Wednesday night, President Shimon Peres addressed the crowd, explaining that throughout his life he has been a man of faith, adding that despite his unshakable faith, he cannot understand the events of the Shoah (Holocaust).

Even today, he explained, 63 years later, one cannot fathom how one-third of the Jewish People were wiped out while the world stood by and permitted the barbaric act.

Mr. Peres stated that even today, we remember under the new veil of a nuclear threat from Iran, calling on the international community to act in time, to never permit another Holocaust.

Peres stated the world could have acted in time and stopped Hitler, but it did not. Now, once again, we urge the world to act in time, making reference to the ongoing nuclear program in Iran, a regime that ignores the international community and its sanctions.

“No force in the world is stronger than the spirit of the people,” who emerged from the ashes of the concentration camps, stated the president, confident that Israel will remain strong, standing alongside its allies.

On Thursday, at 10am, the two-minute siren will sound around the country, marking the beginning of the day’s official events.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)



7 Responses

  1. FAITH?–IN WHAT???

    Notice that he din’t mention the name of G-D even once!

    Mr. Peres has been a poster boy of the left wing in Israel for all of the 60 years of the existence of the State, and the left wing–Labor and MeRetz–hate Judaism.

  2. There was an article a few months ago (don’t recall where)that he has become shomer Shabbos, AND that [in a speech on their 60th anniversary] he will urge all Israelis to do so as well!
    Ya never know! (I think he did learn in a Yeshiva once.)

  3. He grew up frum in russia.Then his father went to israel for a year and came back in shorts.He said “lets go theres a free country out there” and that was the end of that.

  4. This is what I found on him. Interesting.

    Early years

    Shimon Peres was born on August 2, 1923 in Wiszniew, Poland (now Višnieva, Belarus), to Yitzhak (1896-1962) and Sara (b. 1905 née Meltzer) Perski.[2][5] The family spoke Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian at home, and Peres learned Polish at school. He now speaks English and French in addition to Hebrew.[6] His father was a lumber merchant, later branching out into other commodities whilst his mother was a librarian. Peres has a younger brother, Gershon.[7]

    Peres’s grandfather, Rabbi Zvi Meltzer, a grandson of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, had a great impact on his life. In an interview, Peres said: “As a child, I grew up in my grandfather’s home… I was educated by him… my grandfather taught me Talmud. It was not as easy as it sounds. My home was not an observant one. My parents were not Orthodox but I was Haredi. At one point, I heard my parents listening to the radio on the Sabbath and I smashed it.” [8]

  5. Peres has yichus: Wikopedia writes:
    Peres’s grandfather, Rabbi Zvi Meltzer, a grandson of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, had a great impact on his life. In an interview, Peres said: “As a child, I grew up in my grandfather’s home… I was educated by him… my grandfather taught me Talmud. It was not as easy as it sounds. My home was not an observant one. My parents were not Orthodox but I was Haredi. At one point, I heard my parents listening to the radio on the Sabbath and I smashed it.” [8]

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