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Patrick Anidjar
AFP deputy editor in chief, head of web & mobile department. Former Jerusalem bureau chief.
Israeli President Shimon Peres is pictured as he is welcomed by Italian Prime Minister at Chigi Palace in Rome on April 30, 2013

Encounters with Shimon

Tuesday 4 October 2016

"Over the years, I have met him lots of times. Sometimes they were brief encounters as he left a ministerial meeting, sometimes long conversations in his office. The last was at his Center for Peace in Tel Aviv," writes Patrick Anidjar, former Jerusalem bureau chief, of veteran politician Shimon Peres who died last week.

"From all of them, I remember a man unique in his tenacity, his multiple contradictions and his incorrigible optimism. He didn’t like that word, optimism. 'I prefer hope,' he used to say."

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