1994
Opening address – 1994
Speech by Professor , Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Nobel Foundation. (Translation of the Swedish text.) Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Nobel Foundation, I welcome all of you to the 1994 Prize Award Ceremony. We especially welcome this year’s Laureates to the Nobel festivities in Stockholm.…
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Yitzhak Rabin – Speed read
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Yitzhak Rabin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres, for his efforts to create peace in the Middle East. Yitzhak Rabin Full name: Yitzhak RabinBorn: 1 March 1922, Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)Died: 4 November 1995, Tel Aviv, IsraelDate awarded: 14 October 1994 From militarism to reconciliation The…
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Shimon Peres was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly, with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, for his efforts to create peace in the Middle East. Shimon Peres Full name: Shimon PeresBorn: 16 August 1923, Vishneva, Poland (now Belarus)Died: 28 September 2016, Tel Aviv, IsraelDate awarded: 14 October 1994 Reconciling with the Palestinians When the Arab-Israeli war…
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Yasser Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, for his efforts to create peace in the Middle East. Yasser Arafat Full name: Yasser ArafatBorn: 24 August 1929, Cairo, EgyptDied: 11 November 2004, Paris, FranceDate awarded: 14 October 1994 For negotiations with Israel The young Arafat experienced the Arabs’ crushing…
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