Shimon Peres regularly used to say, “We didn’t dream big enough.” So it is quite fitting – and no surprise – that the autobiography released right before the first anniversary of the former president’s death is titled No Room for Small Dreams.
It was my privilege, during the seven years of his presidency, to cover the activities of the president for The Jerusalem Post. Peres was a marvelous raconteur in Hebrew, English and French with a never-ending stock of anecdotes about people whose lives he had entered or who had entered his.
Thus it was with a sense of nostalgia and delighted anticipation that I began to read. There was a loving preface by his children Tsvia, Yoni and Chemi in which they quoted their father telling them to count their dreams and measure them against their achievements. “If you have more dreams than achievements, you are still young,” he told them.
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