Albert Einstein

Hebrew University marks centennial with official new commemorative stamp

University officials said the centennial marks both a reflection on past achievements, including ten Nobel Prizes and two Turing Awards, and a framework for future growth.

The commemorative stamp, with a face value of 9 shekels, was designed by Studio Mench and is available for purchase through the Israel Post Philatelic Service website.
Albert Einstein's letter, discovered by Tel Aviv’s Gnazim Institute, the world’s largest archive of Hebrew literature, November 2025.

Newly-discovered Einstein letter surfaces in Tel Aviv, reveals praise for Jewish assistant

 Professor Hanoch Gutfruend is a physics professor, former Hebrew University president, and Academic Head of the Einstein Archive. He showed The Jerusalem Post around the archives to mark 100 years of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hebrew University's centennial: Einstein's legacy and the guardian of a scientific icon

 An aerial view of Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Mount Scopus campus.

100 years of innovation: Hebrew University of Jerusalem celebrates centennial


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 Israel's President Isaac Herzog is seen meeting with US President Joe Biden in the White House.

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Rabbi Haskel Lookstein

Gov’t approves $18m. for new Albert Einstein Museum at Hebrew U

This project, led by the Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Ministry and HU, will include the construction of a unique facility that will house the full Einstein archives.

Albert Einstein in 1947

Prague: A millennium of Jewish history

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 43

 Spanish synagogue with kafka statue

Albert Einstein letter noting Jewish solidarity to go to auction

Einstein made an interesting comment regarding Jewish solidarity, which is rarely seen in the famed scientist’s correspondence throughout his life, in a 1928 letter.

Albert Einstein

Einstein notes with sketches of relativity theory sold in Paris auction

The 54 pages of paper, around half-filled with Einstein's handwriting, are one of only two working documents known in which the thinker approaches his famous theory.

 The Einstein-Besso manuscript, a 54-page working manuscript written jointly by Albert Einstein and Michele Besso between June 1913 and early 1914, which documents a crucial stage in the development of the general theory of relativity, is displayed at Christie's auction house in Paris, France.

Newly-discovered letter from Einstein reveals US antisemitism in 1930s

“I am not informed (of a vacancy) even when it falls under my own specialty,” the celebrated scientist admitted in the letter, written in German, that has been translated to English

Albert Einstein

Could wormholes be used for future space travel? A new study explains

A theory proposes that wormholes, if they exist, might be more stable than previously suggested.

 Wormhole corresponding to the maximal analytic extension of the Reissner Nordstrom metric.

Albert Einstein's letter on Hitler, Jewish refugees up for auction

The letter, written in 1934, speaks about Hitler and about Jewish refugees in America.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein letter on helping Jewish refugees during WWII up for auction

"The power of resistance which has enabled the Jewish people to survive for thousands of years has been based to a large extent on traditions of mutual helpfulness," wrote Einstein

David Ben-Gurion meeting with Albert Einstein at Princeton University, in 1951