Begin Receives Nobel Peace Prize - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Begin Receives Nobel Peace Prize Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin embraces Egypt's President Anwar Sadat in the East Room of the White House, Sept. 17, 1978. (Bettmann/Getty Images) Advertisement The 1978 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded here today to Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was represented at the ceremony by former Parliament Speaker Said Marai. Both men, Begin in his address, and Sadat in his message read out by Marai, pledged themselves in the Israeli Premier’s words, to: “no more war, no more blood and no more enmity.â€...