In an interview with the JC ahead of his Presidential Conference and 90th birthday celebrations, Shimon Peres said that science and technology are the key the future “identity and existence” of the Jewish state.
While the Israeli President acknowledged that “we have yet to fulfill the dream of peace with all our neighbours”, he emphasised that education and the development of Israel’s human capital was the top priority of the country in the years to come.
Despite the victory of the relatively moderate Hassan Rouhani in the Iranian election last Friday, Mr Peres said that “all options remain on the table” when it comes to neautralising the threat of the regime.
Mr Peres added that “the immediate victims of Iranian tyranny are the Iranian people. It is their human rights and basic freedoms that are forsaken by the regime which chooses enriched uranium over food for its people.”
