Israelis have been awarded the Nobel Prize in four categories. In 1978, Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's president Anwar Sadat shared the Nobel Peace Prize for their breakthrough agreements at the September 1978 Camp David summit meeting with U.S. president Jimmy Carter. In December 1994, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, along with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for concluding the Oslo Accords of 1993. Shmuel Yosef (S. Y.) Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1966. Aharon Ciechanover and Avram Her-shko (2004) were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. David Kah-nerman (2002) and Robert J. (Yisrael) Aumann (2005) were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work in economics.
Historical Dictionary of Israel. Bernard Reich David H. Goldberg. Edited by Jon Woronoff..