Nobel Prize

Nobel Committee calls on Iran to free imprisoned Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi

Mohammadi, 53, who has been imprisoned repeatedly in her three-decade campaign for women's rights, was last week sentenced to a new prison term of 7-1/2 years, a group supporting her said on Sunday.

NARGES MOHAMMADI sits in her apartment in Tehran, Iran, on December 18, 2024.
US President Donald Trump seen in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, DC, US, January 14, 2026

Mistrust of Trump is reshaping the global order - opinion

Baba Baruch, heir of Baba Sali, speaks to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir during traditional ceremonies in Netivot, 1988.

This week in Jewish history: Nobel prize winners, biochemists, and the Baba Sali

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is pictured arriving for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, shown attending a separate event later in the day, in this combination of images taken at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 15, 2026.

Maria Corina Machado gives Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal


The sweet and less sweet in Angrist’s Nobel Prize - analysis

The various reactions to Angrist’s achievement – and the fact that it was significant news here – says much about both the Jewish and the Israeli psyche.

 Rosh Hashana event celebrates aliyah

Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics

This was not the first time Angrist was nominated for a Nobel Prize, having been among the frontrunners in 2019.

 Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist is seen in 2011.

Nobel Prize winner Angrist left Israel because of his low salary - comment

Israel may take great pride in the Nobel Prize winner's success, but the fact that he left Israel points to a deeper problem about immigration.

Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) who won the 2021 Nobel economics prize, speaks during an interview at the Economics Department of MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, US, January 28, 2020, in this still image taken from video on Oct

Journalists in the Philippines, Russia win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Two journalists from the Philippines and Russia won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, the first given to journalists since 1935.

 Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen shows on a mobile phone laureates of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, in the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Julius and Patapoutian

The Nobel Prize for Medicine often lives in the shadow of the Nobels for literature and peace, and their sometimes more widely known laureates.

 An outside view of the Norwegian Nobel Institute with a bust of Alfred Nobel, in central Oslo, Norway September 14, 2021.

Angela Merkel deserves the Nobel Prize for Peace

The departing German leader was no rebel, orator, or original thinker, but morally she was a giant.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel lights a candle at the memorial of the divided city and the victims of communist tyranny during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Wall memorial on Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2019

Amb. Yousef Al Otaiba deserves a Nobel Peace Prize - opinion

There is probably no one more deserving of such an honor than Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United States, for his role in facilitating the Abraham Accords.

 THEN-US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo speaks with the Emirati Ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba in Abu Dhabi, in 2019

Kaare Kristiansen: A man of courage and conscience

He resigned from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee – a very prestigious post – because on December 8, 1994, a decision was made to award it to the world leaders signed on the Oslo Accords.

 TRUE COURAGE: The writer with Kaare Kristiansen, 1994.

Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg, celebrated scientific mind, dies, 88

Born to Jewish immigrants, Weinberg's scientific accomplishments fueled his activism as a proud liberal and outspoken defender of Israel.

Steven Weinberg at the 2010 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States.

From 'The Jewish Nobel' to the prize of the Jewish people

Chairman of the Genesis Prize Foundation on the evolving role of the global Jewish community in selecting the organization's next laureate.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (L) pictured next to Chairman and Co-Founder of The Genesis Prize Foundation Stan Polovets.