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Chapter 5: Two calendars (Gregorian & Hijri) (24)
138 Israeli prime ministers received Nobel Peace Prize twice (2/4)
In the history of the Nobel
Peace Prize, half of the winners were individuals and the remaining were
organizations or entities. Most of individuals were civilians like peace
activists or philosophers. There were very few politicians who received Nobel
Peace Prize. Furthermore, they were not the president or prime minister. Even
if he or she was the top of the state, most of them were already retired from
active service at the time of winning prize like ex-Prime Minister Eisaku Sato
of Japan who was awarded the prize in 1974. Taking the number of winners into
consideration by country, Presidents of the United States were awarded multiple
times. They were Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Woodrow Wilson in1919, Jimmy
Carter in 2002 and Barack Obama in 2009. This was the exceptional case in the
history of Nobel prize.
It was, therefore, surprising that Israeli prime
ministers won the Nobel Peace Prize twice. And it was more surprising that one
of winners of two peace prizes were assassinated later. President Sadat of
Egypt who was co-awarded with Begin in 1978 was assassinated three years later.
And Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, winner of 1994, was also assassinated in
1995. Sadat was sniped as the current president by his own soldiers, and Rabin,
as the current premier was shot by young opponents who was against the peace
treaty.
(To be continued
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(From an ordinary citizen in the
cloud)
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