Shemi Peres is the son of former Prime Minister Shimon Peres and one of Israel's tech stalwarts. President of the Pitango venture capital fund and the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, he has been deeply involved in Israeli-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli dialogue, funding a number of educational and humanitarian projects to bring communities closer together. Very harsh on the state disaster of October 7, which "showed what can be done to the Jews when the state is absent," he points to the responsibility of the government, whose policy of dividing the country has been "an invitation to attack for our enemies." For him, October 7 marks the end of the "policy of containment" of terror, which has been favored for seventy-five years.
LE FIGARO. - Where were you on October 7, when your country was cruelly attacked? Will nothing ever be the same in Israel?
Chemi PERES. - My wife and I were with our granddaughter at our home in northern Israel when we got to see the ...
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