Normally one might have to actually achieve something but then again, one would normally have to be a banker to make seven figures a year from a bank, but not Tony. The Guardian:
Tony Blair last night received the $1m Dan David prize for leadership at a ceremony at Tel Aviv university, a prize awarded for "achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world."A million bucks? Bah! Pocket change for the old boy and possibly even insulting it's so small.
Blair's office said 90% of the money from the prize – which is named after the international businessman and philanthropist Dan David – would be donated to the Tony Blair faith foundation that promotes religious understanding, by bringing together young people of different faiths across the world to learn directly with, from and about each other.
The former prime minister has been envoy to the Quartet of the EU, the US, Russia and the UN, for the past two years, putting him at the heart of negotiations over one of the world's most intractable conflicts. One of the flagship causes he has championed can be found on the northern edge of the Palestinian city of Jenin, on the occupied West Bank.
