For more, our correspondent Stephanie Freid joins us live from Tel Aviv.

Q1: Shimon Peres was celebrated as a Nobel prize-winning visionary. He called his vision the "new Middle East". Tell us more about his major achievements and challenges.

Q2: Peres seemed to have a fondness for China - what can you tell us about that?

"The problems in the Middle East are existential. Which means starvation, unemployment, discrimination. There was a legend that all this can be solved by money. Foreign aid and foreign aid and foreign aid.

Have a look at China, have a look at India. They did not escape poverty by getting American dollars or Russian rubles. They took their faith in their own hands and they produced wonders.

The story of China is the story of the Chinese. The mobilization of the people to save China, to bring her to new heights, to work hard. To restrain when necessary, to save when necessary but also to dare and dream and plan. This is the right example," said Shimon Peres.