Peres

Settler advertisements call for continuing the path of Peres, who helped found Ma'ale Adumim and was quoted saying that developing it was essential to guarantee the defense of Jerusalem

Through his tragic mistake called Oslo, Peres bequeathed to us a legacy to learn from. May we learn the lessons well.

As director-general of the Defense Ministry in the mid 1950s, Peres was instrumental in building a close relationship with France, which agreed to sell a nuclear reactor to Israel.

“To me he was a young man who used his creative skills to get us to eat. Who cut sandwiches into triangles and diamonds," recalls his daughter Tzvika.

Before moving to Israel, Peres's grandfather Rabbi Zvi Meltzer hugged him and said, “My child, be a Jew."

The two men were an odd diplomatic couple; yet, upon hearing of Peres’s death, Obama stopped his schedule and took a 12-hour flight to eulogize a man, already two years out of office.

Tzvia and her husband Rafi are members of the Beit Daniel Reform community in Tel Aviv and also members of the national council of the Reform Movement in Israel.

Love for Peres was clearly evident at the funeral, coming from leaders from the four corners of the earth and all sectors of Israeli society.

"Peres started off life as Israel's brightest student, became its best teacher, and ended up its biggest dreamer," Clinton said.