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From Thatcher to Ronaldo – Israel’s president has met them all: Watch photos and video greetings from world leaders on Peres’ 90th birthday

 

Peres and wife Sonia (Photo: Nati Harnik, GPO)

Being interviewed by Barbara Walters in 1990 (Photo: Michael Kramer)

With Yasser Arafat, Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton and Jordan’s King Hussein (Photo: Efi Sharir)

Peres and Rabin, 1990 (Photo: Natan Alpert, GPO)

With Anwar Sadat and Golda Meir during the Egyptian president’s visit in Israel (Photo: Yaakov Sa’ar, GPO)

With Queen of Pop Madonna (Photo: Moshe Milner, GPO)

With Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: Moshe Milner, GPO)

From Right to Left: Peres, Rabin, Hosni Mubarak, King Hussein and Arafat (Photo: Yaakov Sa’ar, GPO)

Peace treaty. With King Hussein (Photo: Sa’ar Yaakov, GPO)

With Margaret Thatcher in 1986 (Photo: Sa’ar Yaakov, GPO)

With Hillary Clinton (Photo: Mark Neiman, GPO)

With Sharon Stone on Mikahil Gorbachev’s birthday in London (Photo: Mark Neiman, GPO)

With wife Sonia and Indian conductor Zubin Mehta (Photo: Yaakov Sa’ar, GPO)

Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize (Photo: Yaakov Sa’ar, GPO)

Minutes before Rabin murder. At Kings of Israel Square with Rabin and singer Miri Alon (Photo: Michael Kramer)

With wife Sonia (Photo: Herman Hananya, GPO)

With Barbara and George H.W. Bush (Photo: Yaakov Sa’ar, GPO)

With Ehud Olmert during George W. Bush visit in Israel (Photo: Avi Ohayon, GPO)

With Sonia, after trip to Romania, 1985 (Photo: Herman Hananya, GPO)

At Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem (Photo: Moshe Milner, GPO)

Lunch with Silvio Berlusconi and Israeli singer Rita (Photo: Mark Neiman, GPO)

With Ronaldo (Photo: AFP)

With Prince Charles (Photo: AFP)

2008. Knighted by Queen of England (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO)

With Yitzhak Shamir (Photo: Nati Harnik, GPO)

Olmert presents Peres with letter of resignation after corruption scandal (Photo: Avi Ohayon, GPO)

Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni sign Peres’ guestbook (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO)

Warm embrace. With Sarkozy (Photo: AFP)

With Jordan’s King Abdullah in Petra (Photo: Moshe Milner. GPO)

With Rabin in 1977, after Likud wins elections (Photo: Yaakov Sa’ar, GPO)

Ahead of 1984 elections. With Yitzhak Navon and Rabin (Photo: Yaakov Sa’ar, GPO)

With former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (Photo: Avi Ohayon, GPO)

With Eli Wiesel, King Abdullah, Mahmoud Abbas and Olmert in Petra (Photo: Moshe Milner, GPO)

With the Dalai Lama (Photo: Moshe Milner, GPO)

Touring Jerusalem with Mayor Teddy Kollek, 1985 (Photo: GPO)

With Mordechai “Motta” Gur and Ezer Weizman (Photo: GPO)

Down time with his grandchildren (Photo: Elad Gershgoren)

With Nelson Mandela (Photo: Reuters)

With Ariel Sharon (Photo: Avi Ohayon, GPO)

90th birthday (Photo: Reuters)

Kicking off birthday celebration with Clinton (Photo: Amir Levy)