Guardian omits Rabin, Peres, Begin from Nobel list

Menachem Begin, the sixth Prime Minister of Israel, jointly won the Nobel peace prize in 1978 for signing a peace treaty with Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat. Only Sadat was listed by the Guardian.

The Guardian committed the same error by omitting Israeli political leaders Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, who won the peace prize jointly with Yasir Arafat in 1994.

Again, Arafat was listed by the Guardian as a winner but both Peres and Rabin were omitted.

A Guardian spokeswoman said: ""The aim of the Guardian Data Blog is to give guardian.co.uk users access to datasets from around the world on a wide variety of topics.

"For the Nobel Peace Prize winners list, we used data from Nobelprize.org. However, there was a technical issue during the data transfer from the site, which meant that many of the names of the joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize were accidentally omitted, although the country of origin of the winners was not. This has now been corrected."