Chemi Peres: 'My father would have disapproved of self-serving politicians'

Chemi Peres, son of Shimon Peres, has said his father would not have approved of “politicians who serve themselves rather than their people” in an attack on current world leaders. 

In an interview with the JC in London, Mr Peres refused to comment directly on Donald Trump. But he was scathing about the current state of global public affairs, and political polarisation in particular. 

The 59-year-old tech entrepreneur and chairman of the Peres Centre for Peace contrasted his “disciplined and optimistic” father, who served as Israeli Prime Minister and President, with current “self-publicising and extremist” leaders. 

“My father believed very much in the importance of leadership. He said leaders should serve their people, and not just exercise their authority.