"I pray that this will be the best year for Israel and that the Haman who threatens us will be gone one way or another," President Shimon Peres stated. He made the comments at Wednesday's annual open sukkah at the Presidential Residence.
Haman was the wicked viceroy from Peria that conspired to excited all Jewish citizens as described in the Book of Esther. A parallel between Persia's Haman and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been made by quite a few Jewish leaders.