The 86 years old Nobel laureate president Shimon Peres fainted today during a conference and was hospitalized according to Jerusalem Post. The president of Israel fainted on stage as he was speaking at a Young Presidents Organization event in Ramat Aviv.

Top Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that after meeting Livny and Netanyahu the president of Israel Shimon Peres proposed Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next Israeli cabinet and be the next Prime Minister of Israel. According to the newspaper Netanyahu accepted the invitation to form the next government.

Today at the Davos World Economic Forum the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed out of Davos after not given an opportunity to respond to the loud-voice critique of President of Israel Shimon Peres. Then Erdogan and Schwab hold a presser in which Erdoghan said "I have respect for Mr. Peres therefore I did not raise my voice. Otherwise I would have raised my voice. He doesn't speak truth. History and political science deny him.

US President George W. Bush arrived in Israel late Wednesday morning, at the start of a Middle East tour aimed at dealing with both the threat posed by Iran, as well as advancing towards a Palestinian-Israeli permanent status agreement in the coming year.

Israeli President Shimon Peres has visited the Arab village of Kafr Qasem, where he apologised for the 1956 massacre in which 47 residents of the village were killed.

Israeli President Shimon Peres met with Pope Benedict XVI during the visit to Italy amid an international push for peace in the Middle East.

Israel's elder statesman, Shimon Peres, 83, was sworn in Sunday as his country's ninth president, a largely ceremonial post that has come under a cloud of scandal in recent years. VOA's Jim Teeple also reports from Jerusalem that Israeli officials have agreed to stop pursuing about 180 wanted Palestinian militants loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, one day before Mr. Abbas and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are scheduled to meet.

Shimon Peres, a former prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was elected president of Israel. The 83-year-old politician representing the ruling Kadima party won the second round in parliament after two other candidates, Reuven Rivlin of the right-wing Likud and Colette Avital of the centrist Labor party, withdrew from the race after losing the first round earlier today.