From Days Gone By: Peres Learns B’Chavrusa

Outgoing Israeli President and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres is seen in this photo studying Gemara with a Chavrusa during a visit to the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Lod in 1984. Yesterday morning, MK Reuven Rivlin (Likkud) was elected by the Knesset to replace Peres as Israel’s head of state.