JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s President Shimon Peres delivered an on-line civics class to more than 7,000 Israeli high school students in 215 classrooms across Israel.

The Presidential Class, held Thursday morning at Cisco Israel headquarters in Netanya, was billed as the largest on-line civics class in the world. Cisco officials are hoping to make that billing official.

Senior Vice President of Guinness World Records, Marco Frigatti, was at Cisco headquarters to personally view the lecture. He is expected to certify the results later on Thursday.

The classes that viewed the lecture included observant and secular Jews; Arabs, including Bedouin, and Christians.

Peres encouraged the students to take their schoolwork seriously, urging them: “Don’t stop learning, don’t stop dreaming.”

He referred to David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, as “my teacher.”