Miriam peretz biography

Miriam Peretz (Hebrew: מרים פרץ; born 10 April 1954) is an.
You are known today as Miriam Peretz, a presidential candidate and the winner of the Israel Prize.
Born in Casablanca, Morocco, young Miriam and her family were among the thousands who heeded the call of their ancestral homeland, making the.

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A Dancer’s Journey: In Conversation with Miriam Peretz

Header image design by Orly Zebak. Photograph of Peretz is courtesy of JIMENA.

Founded in 2001 by former Jewish refugees from Libya and Egypt, Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA) was launched as a grassroots initiative to educate and engage Jewish institutional leaders, policymakers, Jewish college students, and members of the general public to the unknown personal and collective stories of the one million Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. Their mission is to achieve universal recognition for the heritage and contemporary history of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews.

JIMENA’s Oral History Project aims to collect and preserve the personal histories of Jews who fled Arab lands and now live in the United States. Little has been done to document, preserve, and expose the personal and collective stories of trauma and loss experienced by Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews. Former Mizrahi and Sephardic refugees are part of an aging population and for the sake of Jewish history and historical

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Miriam Peretz

Israeli educator and public speaker

Miriam Peretz (Hebrew: מרים פרץ; born 10 April 1954) is an Israeli educator and public speaker. After the deaths of two of her sons during their service in the Israel Defense Forces, Peretz became a lecturer on Zionism and living with loss. She was the recipient of the Israel Prize in 2018, for lifetime achievement.

In May 2021, Peretz announced that she would run for President of Israel in the 2021 election as an Independent candidate. She ended up losing the election to Isaac Herzog, 26–87.^[1]

Early life and education

Peretz was born to Moroccan Jewish parents Yaakov Ohayon and Ito Vaknin in Casablanca, Morocco. In 1963, the family left Morocco and made aliyah to Israel. Upon arriving in Israel, they settled in Beersheba. Peretz went on to earn a bachelor's degree in literature and history from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and later married Eliezer Peretz in the mid-1970s. After her marriage, she moved to Ofira, an Israeli settlement on the Sinai Peninsula, where her husband worked as an inspect

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Miriam Peretz

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An educator and mother of six, Miriam Peretz was awarded the Israel Prize in 2018 for her work to strengthen Jewish-Israeli identity. Her speech at the awards ceremony on the 70th anniversary Yom HaAtzmaut has been regarded as one of the great speeches in Israel’s history, and there have been calls for her to become the next President of Israel.

She lost her son, Uriel in Lebanon in 1998 and her son Eliraz, in Gaza in 2010. Her husband, Eliezer, also died ‘of a broken heart’. Shirat Miriam, her autobiography, was published in Hebrew in 2011, and in English in 2016 (Miriam’s Song).

Languages: Hebrew

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