A group of 50 Knesset members presented an Israeli peace activist with a letter they had sent to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee recommending him for the honor. Abie Nathan, confined to a wheelchair from a recent stroke, ran the “Voice of Peace,” a ship from which he broadcast programs backing the peace process and various humanitarian causes.
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