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“He possessed an exuberant passion for anything about the future. I often wanted to discuss the past with him—Ben-Gurion, the War of Independence, the alliance with France—things that no one had been more involved with than he had. But he forcibly turned the discussion to completely different topics: nanotechnology, research of the brain, the age that will follow the electronic age, medical breakthroughs that will be able to improve upon human nature.

Indeed, he was certainly a man of dreams that were both naïve and sophisticated, but his dreams came true far more often than the doubts harbored by many others. Being a “dreamer” might be a formula for a hard life, but no one should envy a person who has lost the ability to dream. The man was brimming with curiosity, he inspired curiosity, and I loved him.”

(Writer Amos Oz remembers Shimon Peres, 28/9/2016)