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1923- . Israeli socialist politician, prime
minister 1984-86. Peres emigrated from Poland
to Palestine 1934, but was educated in the
USA. In 1959 he was elected to the Knesset
(Israeli parliament). He became leader of the
Labour Party 1977. Peres was prime minister,
then foreign minister, under a power-sharing
agreement with the leader of the
Consolidation Party (Likud), Yitzhak Shamir.
From 1989 he was finance minister in a new
Labour-Likud coalition.