The Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation was the brainchild of Shimon Peres.
After the murder of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, Shimon Peres came up with the idea for the centre. He was convinced that enduring peace had to be fostered at grassroots level and involve ordinary people and not by formal peace deals.
Although the Visitors’ Centre was opened in 2018, in which Israel’s amazing story of innovation, both past and present is told, the primary function of the Peres Centre has always been to facilitate peace in the region. It has been extremely successful in achieving this through various programmes, relating to medicine, journalism, sport and education.