President
of Israel Shimon Peres set a new Guinness World Record on 6 February 2014.
He
delivered the largest online civics class in the world. He delivered the
classes using Cisco’s advanced technology.
The classes will be
conducted from the company headquarters in Netanya. Over 6500 students
in 215 classes across the country from Jerusalem, Beersheva, Tel Aviv, Kuseife,
Ofakim, Dimona, Hadera, Tiveria, Taibeh, Nahariya, and other communities will
attend it. The participants in the online class will include Jewish and Arab
students together. The class will be a live example of the technology which
will help digitalize education worldwide, reduce the distance between
the center of countries and the periphery, reduce inequality in education and
allow for lessons to be delivered by leading experts to thousands of pupils at
the same time.
At
90, he is also the oldest serving head of state in the world.
