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Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
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Israeli politician (1923–2016)
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Oslo Accords
1993–1995 Israeli–Palestinian peace agreements
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