Nobel Prize

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

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

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Baba Baruch, heir of Baba Sali, speaks to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir during traditional ceremonies in Netivot, 1988.
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 Norwegian Nobel Institute has said the prize cannot be transferred, shared or revoked.

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FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2, 2022.

UN rights experts, influential women condemn Iran’s 'sham' trial of activist Zahra Tabari

Tabari was convicted by a Revolutionary Court in Rasht in October on the grounds of armed rebellion, in an online trial that lasted less than ten minutes.

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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures as she addresses supporters at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela January 9, 2025.

María Corina Machado reveals she fled Venezuela with help from US government - report

Machado, who is now in Oslo, Norway, to join the festivities around the Nobel Prize ceremony, told journalists that she "had support from the United States government."

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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.

OCTOBER 11, 2021ByZEV STUB
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.

OCTOBER 8, 2021ByREUTERS
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.

OCTOBER 4, 2021ByREUTERS
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.

OCTOBER 1, 2021ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
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.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021BySANDER GERBER
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.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021ByDVORA WAYSMAN
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.

JULY 26, 2021ByAARON REICH
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.

JULY 6, 2021BySTAN POLOVETS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (L) pictured next to Chairman and Co-Founder of The Genesis Prize Foundation Stan Polovets.

China: Wuhan lab deserves Nobel Prize in medicine for COVID-19 study

Calls to investigate the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a possible source of the COVID-19 pandemic have grown louder as many experts say initial dismissal of the theory was premature.

JUNE 22, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A building with a sign of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is pictured in Wuhan, the Chinese city hit hardest by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Hubei province, China May 15, 2020.

How do you win a Nobel Prize?

An enlightening interview with Prof. Aaron Ciechanover

FEBRUARY 24, 2021BySHLOMO MAITAL
Nobel Laureate Prof.Aaron Ciechanover