Letter from prime minister Yitzhak Rabin

January 1, 1995

Thank you for your warm words of congratulations on my having been chosen as one of this year's laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Peace is not the enterprise of just one person ‑ it is the achievement of many. Our efforts to realize our dream of living in peace is our inheritance to our children, both Palestinian and Israeli.

The work, however, is not yet finished. The Nobel Peace Prize is for future generations, more than it is a reward for the achievements we have made towards peace thus far. I am hopeful that with continued cooperation and dialogue, our two peoples can overcome the obstacles placed by those who oppose co‑existence, and that we will fulfill the ideals embodied in the Nobel Prize.

Sincerely yours,