Israeli President Shimon Peres celebrates birthday with gala concert honoring his poetry

September 13th, 2009 TEL AVIV - Israeli President Shimon Peres was hospitalised late Saturday after he briefly passed out at a public meeting in Tel Aviv, a media report said. According to YNet news website, Peres, 86, collapsed at the Rabin Center in Tel Aviv at an event hosted by the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), which comprises many young business executives.

September 13th, 2009 TEL AVIV - Israeli President Shimon Peres is recovering in a hospital here after fainting on stage during a conference. Peres, who was elected president in 2007, is under observation in the cardiology department of the Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv.

September 13th, 2009 Israeli President Peres leaves hospitalJERUSALEM — Israeli President Shimon Peres was discharged from a Tel Aviv hospital on Sunday, a day after fainting on stage during a talk. The 86-year-old Peres passed out briefly Saturday, then revived on his own a few seconds later.

September 13th, 2009 Israeli president leaves hospital after faintingJERUSALEM — Israeli President Shimon Peres was discharged from a Tel Aviv hospital on Sunday, a day after fainting on stage during a talk. The 86-year-old Nobel laureate passed out briefly Saturday, then revived on his own a few seconds later.

September 12th, 2009 Peres to leave hospital SundayJERUSALEM — A spokeswoman says Israeli President Shimon Peres will be discharged from a hospital a day after fainting on stage. The 86-year-old Peres fainted briefly after a talk Saturday in Tel Aviv, then revived on his own a few seconds later.

September 12th, 2009 Israeli president faints in Tel AvivJERUSALEM — Israeli President Shimon Peres was rushed to the hospital Saturday night after he fainted on stage while speaking at an event in Tel Aviv. He regained consciousness shortly afterwards but is being held overnight for observation.

September 12th, 2009 Israeli President Peres to leave hospital SundayJERUSALEM — A spokeswoman says Israeli President Shimon Peres will be discharged from a hospital a day after fainting on stage. The 86-year-old Peres fainted briefly after a talk Saturday in Tel Aviv, then revived on his own a few seconds later.

May 5th, 2009 Obama to meet with Israeli presidentWASHINGTON — Amid a flurry of meetings on domestic issues, President Barack Obama also is sitting down with Israeli President Shimon Peres to talk about the Middle East. Obama greets the Israeli leader Tuesday at the White House.

May 5th, 2009 Israeli president: US approach to Iran OK for nowWASHINGTON — Israeli President Shimon Peres offered a cautious endorsement of new U.S. overtures to Iran following a longer-than-expected White House meeting with President Barack Obama.

April 28th, 2009 Israeli President Peres to meet Obama next weekJERUSALEM — Israel's ceremonial president, Shimon Peres, meets next week with President Barack Obama, before the American leader sees Israel's new prime minister. A statement from Peres' office says he will represent Israel at the annual conference of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby.

February 21st, 2009 JERUSALEM - Israel's President Shimon Peres is to ask the head of the country's right-wing Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, to form a government, an official said Friday. Netanyahu has earlier said he was ready to form a coalition with the centrist Kadima party of his main rival Tzipi Livni.

February 21st, 2009 JERUSALEM - Israel's President Shimon Peres tasked Benjamin Netanyahu Friday with forming a new government, ending speculation which had persisted since Israel's inconclusive general election last week. Although Netanyahu's hardline Likud Party had won only 27 of the 120 Knesset seats (Israeli parliament) at stake in the election, one fewer than won by the centrist Kadima party of Tzipi Livni, he is seen as having the best chances of forming a governing coalition.

February 21st, 2009 JERUSALEM - The head of the right-wing Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Friday he was ready to form a coalition in Israel with the centrist Kadima party of his main rival Tzipi Livni. Netanyahu was speaking after a meeting with President Shimon Peres in an effort to build a grand coalition.

January 29th, 2009 TEL AVIV/DAVOS - Israeli President Shimon Peres said Friday he regretted the incident at the World Economic Forum in Davos the day before when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed out of a debate over the Gaza Strip issue. The Haaretz newspaper's website said Peres had made a telephone call with Erdogan Friday morning and assured him that he was 'very sorry' about the incident.

January 19th, 2009 JERUSALEM - The inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States is a great day for the US because his 'most unusual hope and election, only ten years ago, would have been unimaginable,' Israeli President Shimon Peres said Tuesday. 'What made history ugly, unmistakably, was basically slavery and there were two sorts of slavery: men upon women and white upon black,' Peres said.