Blair awarded $1m for Middle East work
Blair awarded $1m for Middle East work
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Monday, 18, May 2009 11:55
Former prime minister Tony Blair has been awarded a $1 million prize for his work in negotiating a Middle East peace deal.
Mr Blair received the Dan David prize for leadership at a ceremony at Tel Aviv university on Sunday night.
The prize is awarded for "achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world" and was in recognition of his work as an envoy Quartet of the EU, the US, Russia and the UN, during the last two years.
Mr Blair's office has said 90 per cent of the prize money will be donated to the Tony Blair faith foundation which promotes better religious understanding.
Israel's president Shimon Peres presented the prizes on the university campus last night along with education minister Gideon Sa'ar, Dan David, who established the prize.
Other winners of the $1 million prize this year were Aids virus co-discoverer Professor Robert Gallo and Professor Paulo de Bernardis, a leading physicist at the University La Sapienza in Rome.