The Nobel Peace Prize 1994
Awarded on: 1994-10-14
"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East"
Yitzhak Rabin
Born: 1922-03-01 in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)
Gender: male
Field: Prime Minister of Israel (1974–1977; 1992–1995)
Biography
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister of Israel, having served from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. He was the first prime minister to have been born in the region of Palestine, at the time under British control.