Abie Nathan

Avraham "Abie" Nathan (Hebrew: אברהם "אייבי" נתן, 29 April 1927 – 27 August 2008) was an Israeli humanitarian and peace activist.

"[1] Abie Nathan was born to a Jewish family in Abadan, Persia, on 29 April 1927 and spent his adolescent years in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.

[2] Nathan led a party called Nes (Miracle) in the 1965 Knesset elections, but failed to cross the electoral threshold.

He asked to meet Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to deliver a petition calling for peace between Israel and Egypt.

[4] Nathan continued to meet with PLO head Yasser Arafat, however, and on 18 September 1991 he was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

The station broadcast 24 hours a day, mostly English-language programs that mainly included popular music, while promoting Nathan's political activities.

In August of that year, together with the non-political movement for quality of life and society in Israel Am Yafe Am Ehad (One Beautiful People One Nation) he set up a trust for the elderly named "Keren Sevá Tová" (a ripe old age) that provided clothes and household ware to old people in need.

Abie Nathan's Peace Now plane 1965
The helm of the Peace Ship – one of the only items left from the ship from which the Voice of Peace was broadcast (currently displayed in the Hashomer Hatzair archive, Yad-Yaari in Givat Haviva , Israel ).
Memorial plaque to "The Voice of Peace" at Tel Aviv's Gordon Beach