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


Einstein's childhood toy up for auction

The wooden bead game was once owned by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

The pearl mosaic game once belonging to Albert Einstein

Einstein letter mocking Austria’s anti-Semitic policies up for auction

The letter, dated Sept. 30, 1936, was written shortly before Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany.

Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna, 1921

Texts from beyond the grave

Nell Freudenberger draws parallels between questions of ontology (the nature of being) and physical science in her third novel, Lost and Wanted.

DOES HUMAN consciousness extend beyond death?

Einstein letter on Jewish solidarity garners top bid

Einstein addressed the letter, posted from his Princeton office, to Dr. Maurice Lenz of New York and praised his efforts to enable the refugees to enter the United States.

A letter Albert Einstein wrote to Dr. Maurice Lenz

Three Einstein letters on antisemitism to be auctioned

"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."

A letter from Albert Einstein to his first wife, Mileva Maric

110 of Albert Einstein's documents newly unveiled for 140th birthday

In honor of the scientist's 140th birthday, Hebrew University revealed newly-acquired pages of equations and private letters.

Einstein's notes on the physics of the atomic bomb and nuclear reactor

Einstein’s ‘God Letter’ sells for almost $3 million at Christie’s

Einstein wrote what was dubbed “The God Letter” to philosopher Eric Gutkind, in 1954.

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

Sotheby's to auction Bible signed by Einstein

The praise Einstein gave to the bible is radically different from his famed ‘God letter,' where he chalked up Judaism to be a mere "childish superstition,”

Bible with an inscription by Albert Einstein

Einstein letter predicting rise of Nazi party up for auction

he August 1922 letter, presumably written in Kiel shortly before Einstein's escape from Berlin, was put up for auction by an anonymous collector.

The letter written by Albert Einstein to be auctioned off at Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem

Einstein’s ‘God letter’ to be auctioned in New York

The acclaimed physicist wrote that Judaism ‘is an incarnation of the most childish superstition’.

Albert Einstein