Sunday, March 3, 2013

Top 10 Jewish Nobel Peace Prize Winners


  1. Menachem Begin: 1978 winner for signing a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
  2. Shimon Peres: 1994 winner with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the Oslo Peace Accords.
  3. Yitzhak Rabin: 1994 winner with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat for the Oslo Peace Accords.
  4. Tobias Asser: 1911 winner for forming the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Co-won with Alfred Fried.
  5. Alfred Fried: 1911 winner. Co-founded the German Peace Society in 1892.
  6. Rene Cassin: 1968 winner for his work on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  7. Henry Kissinger: 1973 winner for his work of U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
  8. Elie Wiesel: 1986 winner for his work on speaking out against racism and oppression.
  9. Joseph Rotblat: 1995 winner for his work pertaining to nuclear disarmament.
  10. UNICEF: There are really only nine Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners, but UNICEF won the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize for being an international aid organization, and Ludwik Rajchman, a Jew, was one of the founders of UNICEF.

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