The Nobel Peace Prize 1978
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Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Menachem Begin
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Peace Prize 1978 was awarded jointly to Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin "for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978"
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