1994Nobel Prizes

Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize.

The 1994 prize goes to Israel's prime minister and foreign minister and the PLO chairman, a year after the Oslo Accords.

3
laureates, one third of the prize each
SourceNobelPrize.org
13
months from the signing to the announcement
SourceUS Office of the Historian
5
years of interim self-government planned
SourceUS Office of the Historian

Here is how it happened.

13 September 1993
Israel and the PLO sign a Declaration of Principles at the White House.
Israel accepts the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians, and the PLO renounces terrorism and recognises Israel's right to exist in peace. Both sides agree on a Palestinian Authority and on a five-year interim period.
SourceUS Office of the Historian
14 October 1994
The Norwegian Nobel Committee names three laureates.
It cites their efforts to create peace in the Middle East and their work on the Oslo Accords. It hopes the award will encourage all Israelis and Palestinians who are working for lasting peace.
SourceNobelPrize.org
10 December 1994
All three laureates receive the prize at Oslo City Hall.
The committee chairman welcomes all three in person. In his lecture Rabin recalls that he once wanted to be a water engineer.
SourceNobelPrize.org
November 1995
Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated a year after the prize.
He is killed by Yigal Amir, an Israeli who opposed the Oslo Accords on religious grounds. By 2000, the same history says, the peace process had run aground.
SourceUS Office of the Historian

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Here is why it matters.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the prize honoured a political act that called for great courage on both sides. Rabin was assassinated in November 1995, and by 2000 the peace process had run aground.

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Here is how it happened.

Israel and the PLO sign a Declaration of Principles at the White House.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee names three laureates.

All three laureates receive the prize at Oslo City Hall.

Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated a year after the prize.

Here is why it matters.

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