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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Congressional Gold Medal

Then-prime minister Menachem Begin (R) and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat share a laugh at the King David Hotel on November 19, 1977. (Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO archive)
December 18, 2018, 12:22 am
Trump signs law conferring Congressional Gold Medal on Anwar Sadat
US Congress approves honor for late Egyptian president, ahead of 40th anniversary of 1979 peace treaty with Israel
By Ron Kampeas
Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 14, 2017, 11:20 pm
US Senate bill seeks to honor POW in WWII
Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds in line for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal for refusing to identify Jews to the Nazis
By JTA
Frank Gleason, 96, a retired colonel with the Office of Strategic Services, looks at his old blue mess dress uniform hanging on a door as he sits in his home in Atlanta, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. (AP/David Goldman)
October 2, 2016, 4:39 pm
Effort to recognize World War II spies is hung up in Congress
House Republicans delay award of Congressional Gold Medal to members of CIA forerunner
By Matthew Barakat
Raoul Wallenberg, right, with Jews in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, exact date uncertain (Courtesy Yad Vashem)
July 7, 2014, 11:41 am
Family of Holocaust hero Wallenberg still wants answers
Diplomat who saved thousands from the Nazis disappeared after being imprisoned by Soviets in 1945
By Nina Larson
President Shimon Peres at a ceremony upon his reception of the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday, June 26, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)
June 26, 2014, 7:23 pm
Full text of Shimon Peres’s speech at US Congress
In last US visit as president, 90-year-old statesman vows Israel will continue to ‘advance peace’ and ‘fight terror’
President Shimon Peres addresses the US Congress after being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, July 26, 2014 (photo credit: YouTube screen cap)
June 26, 2014, 6:43 pm
Peres honored by Congress, calls for ‘start-up region’
90-year-old statesman lauded by American leaders as a ‘force of nature’ and inspiration
By Adiv Sterman
Lobbyist Ezra Friedlander, left, in discussion with Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III after the passing of the legislation.(photo credit: Courtesy)
May 20, 2014, 7:17 pm
Congress votes to award Peres Congressional Gold Medal
President, 90, joins Wiesel, Wiesenthal and Lubavitcher rebbe as recipient of 2 top United States government honors
By JTA and ToI Staff
In this Jan. 3, 1950 file photo, Maj. Gen. William (Wild Bill) Donovan, center, the New York attorney who headed the U.S. Office of Strategic Service during World War II, is greeted by Maj. General C. L. Chennault, left, on his arrival in Hong Kong. (photo credit: AP Photo)
December 2, 2013, 9:58 am
Congressmen seek medal for WW II-era US spy agency
Gen. William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan led the Office of Strategic Services to form a lasting counterintelligence network
By AP
President Shimon Peres with Barbra Streisand at Peres's 90th birthday party, June 19, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
August 2, 2013, 2:35 am
Congress considers Peres for highest civilian honor
President would become one of only nine recipients of both Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom
August 6, 2012, 12:47 pm
Sweden marks 100th anniversary of Wallenberg’s birth
Other events for the diplomat who saved some 20,000 Jews from the Nazis were held in Budapest, Moscow and Berlin
April 19, 2012, 9:32 am
House votes unanimously for Wallenberg medal
The Swedish diplomat in Budapest issued Swedish travel documents — known as ‘Wallenberg passports’ — to at least 20,000 Jews
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