A Quote by Shimon Peres

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Shimon Peres

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Shimon Peres
Israeli - Statesman
August 2, 1923 - September 28, 2016

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