Shimon Peres

Controversy

The allegedly part-Jewish athlete posted—and then deleted—an Instagram that read “Pray for Palestine,” and then reportedly proceeded to harass an Israeli-born journalist over Twitter.

Prays at ‘Separation Wall’

In what will be his Mideast trip’s epochal image, he stopped to pray at the graffiti-covered Palestinian side of the ‘separation wall’—and invited Peres and Abbas to meet at his ‘home.’