Alexandros Margaritis
Alexandros( Alex, Alexander) Margaritis;( born 20 September 1984) is a racing driver who is best known for competing in the German- based Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters touring car championship.
Prior to that, his career had focused on formula single seater racing in Europe.
Margaritis has dual nationality as a result of his place of birth and Greek parentage.
Yoram Dori
Yoram Dori( born 1950) is a strategic advisor.
He served for years as a close advisor for Israel's President Shimon Peres.
Dori is the director general of Dori ltd.
Sonia Peres
Sonia Peres(" née" Gelman; 27 March 1923 – 20 January 2011) was the wife of President and Prime Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres.
Jonathan Adiri
Jonathan Adiri( born 1982) is an Israeli digital healthcare entrepreneur and an advisor to former Israeli president Shimon Peres.
Shimon bar Yochai
Shimon bar Yochai( Aramaic: רבן שמעון בר יוחאי," Rabban Shimon bar Yoḥai"), also known by his acronym Rashbi, was a 2nd- century" tannaitic" sage in ancient Judea, said to be active after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.
He was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva, and attributed by many Orthodox Jews with the authorship of the Zohar, the chief work of Kabbalah.
In addition, the important legal works called Sifre and Mekhilta are attributed to him( not to be confused with the Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael, of which much of the text is the same).
In the Mishnah, in which he is the fourth- most mentioned sage, he is referred to as simply" Rabbi Shimon"( with one exception, Hagigah 1:7).
In the baraita, midrash and gemara his name occurs either as R. Shimon or as R. Shimon ben Yochai.
According to popular legend, he and his son, Eleazar b. Simeon, were noted Kabbalists.
Both figures are held in unique reverence by kabbalistic tradition.
They were buried in the same tomb in Meron, Israel, which is visited by thousands year round.
Harry Shapiro (criminal)
Harry Shapiro is a convicted criminal who pleaded guilty on March 20, 1997, to federal charges that he had planted a pipe bomb at a Jacksonville, Florida, synagogue.
Shapiro was 31 years old at the time of his plea and admitted" using an explosive to threaten a foreign official, internationally protected person and official guest of the United States Government."
On February 13, 1997, about three hours before former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres was supposed to speak in support of the Oslo Accords at the Jacksonville Jewish Center, Shapiro called the Jacksonville Sheriff's office claiming to be a member of American Friends of the Islamic Jihad and warned of two bombs at the center.
The building was evacuated and searched, but no bombs were found.
Shapiro told his rabbi and a co-worker at the gas station where he worked of his plan to prevent Peres from speaking, but his claim was dismissed until a gunpowder laden pipe was found nine days later by children playing at the Center; it was then detonated by the police.
Shapiro told the court March 19:" I placed gunpowder in a pipe.
I placed it in a house of worship.
I threatened a life of a human being with it.
I called 911 and issued a threat to keep Mr.[ Shimon] Peres from speaking."( Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 28, 1997.)
As part of his plea he avoided the charge of using an explosive in the commission of a crime, which carried up to 30 years in prison and a$ 250,000 fine.
As reported in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,( January/ February 2001 issue, Pages 71 – 72, quoted above) Mr. Shapiro's crime was a hoax to protest and stop Shimon Peres' lecture.
" ...[ H] e staged a phony bombing of a Jacksonville synagogue where Shimon Peres was to speak on behalf of the Oslo accords."
Another source states that" Harry Shapiro ... planted a phony pipe bomb at a Jewish community center in order to disrupt a speech by Prime Minister and peace advocate Shimon Peres."
( Washington Monthly, September 2000.)
This position was further supported by reports in the media at the time of the event, both at the bail hearing, where" Mr. Shapiro's lawyer, Hank Coxe, told the judge ... that the bomb was' incapable of exploding or causing harm to anyone,'"( New York Times, February 28, 1997), and at the sentencing, re-asserting Shapiro's attorney's claim that Shapiro did not intend to injure Peres or the audience of 1,500;" ... that he had made an inoperable device.
' It was important for Mr. Shapiro to make clear that, in his mind, he never intended to hurt anybody,' defense attorney Hank Coxe told the Florida Times- Union after the hourlong hearing( Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 28, 1997).
The fact that the device did not explode or might not have been functional was not a factor in the federal charge,[ Assistant U.S. Attorney] Devereaux said( Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 28, 1997).
Despite," Federal and local authorities, as well as members of Israeli security units ... having ... searched the synagogue after receiving the threat,"( New York Times, February 28, 1997), and Jacksoville area police having been told the location of the device in Shapiro's 911 call, all agencies failed to properly search the synagogue.
There was a bitter public exchange between the State Department and the police in Jacksonville as to who was responsible for the failure to defuse the event from happening- the former accused the local police of utter incompetence, and the latter insisted they followed the State Department's orders as to how to conduct the search( New York Times, February 27, 1997, Late Edition- Final, Section A, Page 18), which eventually led to the Federal Bureau of Investigation taking the case out of the hands of local authorities.
Shapiro, formerly inmate# 19669- 018, was released from federal custody on February 17, 2006.
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres( born Szymon Perski; 1 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the ninth President of Israel( 2007 – 2014), the Prime Minister of Israel( twice), and the Interim Prime Minister, in the 1970s to the 1990s.
He was a member of twelve cabinets and represented five political parties in a political career spanning 70 years.
Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and except for a three- month- long hiatus in early 2006, was in office continuously until he was elected President in 2007.
At the time of his retirement in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state and was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation.
From a young age, he was renowned for his oratorical brilliance, and was chosen as a protégé by David Ben- Gurion, Israel's founding father.
He began his political career in the late 1940s, holding several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.
His first high- level government position was as Deputy Director- General of Defense in 1952 which he attained at the age of 28, and Director- General from 1953 until 1959.
In 1956, he took part in the historic negotiations on the Protocol of Sèvres described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as the" highest form of statesmanship".
In 1963, he held negotiations with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, which resulted in the sale of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel, the first sale of U.S. military equipment to Israel.
Peres represented Mapai, Rafi, the Alignment, Labor and Kadima in the Knesset, and led Alignment and Labor.
Peres first succeeded Yitzhak Rabin as Acting Prime Minister briefly during 1977, before becoming Prime Minister from 1984 to 1986.
As Foreign Minister under Prime Minister Rabin, Peres engineered the 1994 Israel – Jordan peace treaty, and won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the Oslo Accords peace talks with the Palestinian leadership.
In 1996, he founded the Peres Center for Peace, which has the aim of" promot[ ing] lasting peace and advancement in the Middle East by fostering tolerance, economic and technological development, cooperation and well- being."
After suffering a stroke, Peres died on 28 September 2016 near Tel Aviv.
Peres was a polyglot, speaking Polish, French, English, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew, although he never lost his Polish accent when speaking in Hebrew.
In his private life, he was a poet and songwriter, writing stanzas during cabinet meetings, with some of his poems later being recorded as songs in albums.
As a result of his deep literary interests, he could quote from Hebrew prophets, French literature, and Chinese philosophy with equal ease.
Shimon Ratner
Shimon Ratner, also known as Shimon Leumi, and by the nickname" Lumek" was a Polish- born football player and coach, who coached the Mandatory Palestine national football team in 1934, taking control of them for their first ever match during the 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign.
Horacio Badaraco
Horacio Badaraco( 1901 –1946) was an Argentine anarchist and journalist, born in Buenos Aires.
Simeon ben Eleazar
Simeon ben Eleazar( or Simeon b. Eleazar;, read as" Shimon ben Eleazar") was a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation.

Question: Does Horacio Badaraco have the same nationality as Shimon Peres?
Answer: no