Avram Hershko

The Health Ministry’s public complaints commissioner, Prof. Chaim Hershko, on Monday recommended the filing of an official complaint against two…

Maimonides (Moshe, the son of Maimon, or the Rambam by acronym) – the great Jewish rabbi and philosopher of the Middle Ages who was also a very…

There are some multimillionaires – even billionaires – who think they can ‘take it with them,’ and are so addicted to the thrill of amassing money…

My mother says the Cuban missile crisis almost passed her by as she was busy looking after my newborn brother. My strongest memory of September 11,…

Adi Friedman, a pupil at Haifa’s Leo Baeck High School, will get a full university scholarship for taking first prize in the annual Intel-Israel…

IN THE early 1970s, the US table tennis team, while in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, received an invitation to visit China.…

In a formal but simple ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Thursday, 70-year-old Weizmann Institute of Science Prof. Ada Yonath - a pioneer in…

Holocaust survivors whose villages were kept under curfew during World War II will be eligible for reparations without needing to meet an extra…

One would think that as scribbled medical files have been replaced by computerized records, and medical staffers can easily consult with drug…

Israel's in fourth in global scientific activity, ranking just behind Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark for the number of scientific publications per…

Thanks to Prof. Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot - who on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - just about everyone…

Prof. Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science - whose highly abstruse field and targets were regarded with skepticism by colleagues and who…

Tel Aviv University theoretical physicist Prof. Yakir Aharonov did not receive the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, leaving Israelis…

Tel Aviv University theoretical physicist Prof. Yakir Aharonov did not receive the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, leaving Israelis…

Deputy Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman instructed the Health Ministry ombudsman for dealing with complaints about medical professionals, Prof. Chaim…

JERUSALEM MAYOR Nir Barkat had his chambers renovated in such a way as to have all the deputy mayors flanked on either side of him with the aim of…

Prof. Chaim Hershko, one of the country's leading hematologists, has been appointed Health Ministry ombudsman for dealing with complaints about…

I do hope you are right. - Winston Churchill accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1953The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded this week to…

FIRST DECADE: A State is Born1948May 14, the 5th day of Iyar: Jewish representatives from all over Palestine meet in the Tel Aviv Museum, where David…

"I THINK you have to go. Ehud, I said you have to go."The speaker was Sir Trevor Chinn, and no, he was not echoing those members of Knesset who have…