This softened Sonia Peres' hostility to her husband's public and political activities. Peres has fulfilled some of the symbolic roles of a prime minister's wife, mainly hosting leaders and women leaders abroad. For example, she attended the official reception at the Ben-Gurion Airport to Prime Minister of Denmark Poul Schlüter in September 1985 and accompanied a tour of US Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife Barbara in Israel in July 1986.