Shimon Peres may never have lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, but a street corner in New York City is named in his honor.
The intersection of West 95th Street and Riverside Drive was renamed “Shimon Peres Place” after the New York City Council approved nearly 200 new street names in honor of various personalities.
The news was reported by the Patch site, which points out that while Shimon Peres never resided in the city permanently, he studied at New York University and the New School and visited New York frequently.
Peres, who died in 2016, served as Israel’s prime minister three times before serving as president from 2007 to 2014.
the after a meeting with business leaders from new technologies Israel and twenty-three years to the day after the signing of the oslo chordsShimon Peres is the victim of a stroke major which leaves him in critical condition. He dies on 28 September 2016 following this stroke, Chaim Sheba Medical Center.
Extremely rare occurrence United States in honor of a foreign personality, Barack Obama decides to lower the flags on the White Houseas well as all American official and military buildings in the country and abroad for a duration of two days in tribute to Shimon Peres.
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