No Room for Small Dreams

by Shimon Peres

  Fourteen years old, a teenager in the land of our forefathers, with the birth of the State of Israel still more than a decade away. Shimon Peres Archives

  Newly wed with Sonia in Tel Aviv, May 1945. Shimon Peres Archives

  Our plan for the Sinai operation in 1956, drawn by Moshe Dayan and signed by David Ben-Gurion. Courtesy of the I.D.F and Defense Establishment Archives

  Sonia, Tsvia, Yonatan (Yoni), and I admire baby Nechemia (Chemi), 1958. Avraham Vered, in Bamahane magazine, courtesy of the I.D.F and Defense Establishment Archives

  With Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in Dimona in the late 1950s. Shimon Peres Archives

  Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and I welcome the hostages after Operation Entebbe. Uri Herzl Tzahik, courtesy of the I.D.F and Defense Establishment Archives

  Speaking with the hostages after Operation Entebbe. Uri Herzl Tzahik, courtesy of the I.D.F and Defense Establishment Archives

  Meeting with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in the city of Beersheba, 1979. Sa'ar Ya'acov/GPO

  With the chairman of the Histadrut, Yisrael Kessar, as he signs the 1985 Economic Stabilization Plan, alongside the minister of finance, Yitzhak Modai, and the minister of the economy, Gad Yaacobi. Nati Harnik/GPO

  Signing the Oslo Accords in Washington, D.C., September 1993. Avi Ohayon/GPO

  One of my proudest achievements as prime minister during the mid-1980s was Operation Moses, a secret effort to bring Ethiopian Jews to safety in Israel. Of the approximately 8,000 we rescued, 1,500 were children. Nati Harnik/GPO

  With Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, as we receive the Nobel Peace Prize in October 1994. Sa’ar Ya’acov/GPO

  Greeting Pope Francis on the airport tarmac during his visit to Israel. Avi Ohayon/GPO

  With German chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Amos Ben Gershom/GPO

  Launching my Facebook page alongside the company’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, at Facebook’s headquarters in California, 2012. Moshe Milner/GPO

  Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, June 2012. Amos Ben Gershom/GPO

  At our national ceremony for outstanding soldiers at the President’s Residence on Independence Day, 2013. Amos Ben Gershom/GPO

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  SHIMON PERES was one of Israel’s founding fathers and for more than six decades was an architect of its ascent from a fragile state to a global power. In 1994, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to forge peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In 1996, he founded the groundbreaking Peres Center for Peace and Innovation to focus on developing and implementing imaginative peace-building programs around the world. Peres died in September 2016, shortly after finishing his work on this book. He was ninety-three years old.

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  CREDITS

  Cover design by Jeanne Reina

  Cover photograph © Jonathan Bloom

  COPYRIGHT

  The Peres family would like to thank Dylan Loewe and his team at West Wing Writers for their assistance.

  NO ROOM FOR SMALL DREAMS. Copyright © 2017 by Shimon Peres. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  EPub Edition September 2017 ISBN 978-0-06-256146-6

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