Nobel Peace Prize

Jewish recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 8% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

8%of all recipients are Jewish

9 documented recipients

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Tobias Asser1911

Dutch jurist; co-founder of the Institute of International Law (1873) and initiator and president of the Hague conferences on private international law; Nobel Peace Prize 1911

Source: Wikipedia — Tobias Asser / NobelPrize.org Peace 1911 / Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland

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Alfred Fried1911

Austrian pacifist; Nobel Peace Prize (1911) for founding the German peace movement

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners

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René Cassin1968

Jurist of Free France and principal drafter of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights; president of the European Court of Human Rights and Nobel Peace Prize 1968

Source: Wikipedia — René Cassin

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Henry Kissinger1923

Harvard political scientist, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State; Nobel Peace Prize 1973 for negotiating the Vietnam cease-fire

Source: Wikipedia — Henry Kissinger

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Menachem Begin1977

Sixth Prime Minister of Israel (1977–1983); negotiated the Camp David Accords and signed the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty; Nobel Peace Prize 1978 with Anwar Sadat

Source: Wikipedia — Menachem Begin / NobelPrize.org Peace 1978

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Elie Wiesel1986

Holocaust survivor and writer (Night); chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust that led to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Nobel Peace Prize 1986 as a messenger to mankind

Source: Wikipedia — Elie Wiesel / NobelPrize.org Peace 1986

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Yitzhak Rabin1974

Prime Minister of Israel (1974–1977 and 1992–1995) and IDF Chief of Staff in 1967; signed the 1993 Declaration of Principles and the 1994 Israel–Jordan peace treaty; Nobel Peace Prize 1994

Source: Wikipedia — Yitzhak Rabin / NobelPrize.org Peace 1994

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Shimon Peres1984

Director-general of the Ministry of Defence (1953–1959), Prime Minister (1984–1986, 1995–1996) and ninth President of Israel (2007–2014); as foreign minister led the Israeli side of the 1993 Oslo…

Source: Wikipedia — Shimon Peres / NobelPrize.org Peace 1994

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Joseph Rotblat1995

Physicist who left the Manhattan Project on conscience; Nobel Peace Prize (1995) for the Pugwash anti-nuclear conferences

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners