Trump really wants a Nobel Peace Prize. His prospects may be rising.

President Donald Trump has reached the mountaintop of global political power – twice – but another quest still looms: the Nobel Peace Prize.

The president has been openly campaigning for the prize, which will be announced this Friday, since his first term. Nominated multiple times by supporters (the official list of nominees, which typically runs in the hundreds, is not released), President Trump recently said it would be “an insult” to the country should he fail to win.

Observers – and indeed, Mr. Trump himself – have mostly discounted his chances of receiving the award. But the news Wednesday evening that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of an ambitious peace plan, brokered by Mr. Trump, may cast the subject in a new light. Under the deal, Israel and Hamas have agreed