Here's a look at the life of Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Personal: Birth date: August 15, 1923 (some sources say the 16th)

Birth place: Vishniev, Poland (now in Belarus)

Birth name: Shimon Persky

Father: Isaac Persky

Mother: Sarah Persky

Marriage: Sonya Gelman (1945 - January 20, 2011, her death)

Children: Zvia, Jonathan, and Nechemia

Timeline: 1934 - Family immigrates to Palestine.

1948 - Appointed head of Israel's Naval Services.

1953-1959 - Director General of Israel's Ministry of Defense.

1959 - Elected to Israel's Parliament, the Knesset.

1959-1965 - Deputy Minister of Defense.

1974-1977 - Minister of Defense.

1977-1992 - Chairman of the Labor Party.

1984-1986 - First Prime Minister of the new National Unity Government.

December 10, 1994 - Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin.

November 4, 1995-June 1996 - Becomes prime minister after then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated.

1996 - Founds the Peres Center for Peace.

March 2001 - Is appointed deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's newly formed National Unity Government.

January-November 2005 - Vice Premier of the Knesset (Parliament) and Senior Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.

June 13, 2007 - Wins the Israeli presidential election by a vote of 86 - 23 by the Knesset.

July 15, 2007 - Takes office for a seven year term.

November 13, 2007 - Peres addresses the Turkish parliament, becoming the first Israeli president in history to speak to a Muslim country's legislature.

July 2009 - Meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo to discuss the Middle East peace process and the fate of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held by Hamas since 2006.