Former prime minister Tony Blair has won $1m (£697,000) for his leadership on the world stage.
Mr Blair, now a Middle East envoy, will receive the Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University in Israel in May.
It marks his "foresight", "exceptional intelligence" and "steadfast determination" to end conflicts.
Mr Blair's spokesman said the money would be donated to the former Labour leader's recently set up charity for religious understanding.
'Morally courageous'
Mr Blair, prime minister from 1997 to 2007, is an envoy of the international Quartet (the US, EU, UN and Russia) on the Middle East peace process.
His entry as a Dan David laureate on the prize's website hails him as "one of the most outstanding statesmen of our era". >>> | Monday, February 16, 2009
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