Blair wins $1m leadership prize
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".
It praises his role in the Northern Ireland peace process and his "steadfast determination and morally courageous leadership" over Kosovo.
There is no mention of the decision to support the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003...
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That would be more accurate.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.