Abie Nathan | 1927-2008

Nathan used this airplane in his failed 1965 campaign to win election to Israel’s parliament. He was convinced that people power could succeed where the diplomats had failed and ran for office on a promise to fly to Cairo and talk peace with then-Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The voters rejected him, but he flew his private plane to Port Said anyway.  (Pridan Moshe / AFP-Getty Images)