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.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
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.

|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

|ByLARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOF
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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This week in Jewish history: The Dreyfus Affair and birth of Zionism

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

JANUARY 3, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
Alfred Dreyfus

Trump's Middle East diplomacy deserves the Nobel Peace Prize - opinion

The Nobel Committee must award the prize based on results, not ideology. The Abraham Accords brought tangible peace to a region defined by turmoil, proving that diplomacy can persist over division.

JANUARY 2, 2025ByGREGORY LYAKHOV
NOBEL PEACE Prize winner and 39th US president, the late Jimmy Carter greets a torchlight procession from the balcony of the Grand Hotel in downtown Oslo, Norway, in December 2002. US President-elect Donald Trump deserves the Nobel based on the Abraham Accords, the writer believes.

This week in Jewish history: Jerusalem seized, Nazi death camps begin

An abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

DECEMBER 6, 2024BySTEVEN DRUCKER
The surrender of Jerusalem, December 9, 1917.

Trump and Biden can forge peace in Israel – and earn Trump the Nobel Prize - comment

Trump has a chance to transcend these odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize by joining forces with President Joe Biden to end the war in Israel.

NOVEMBER 24, 2024ByZVIKA KLEIN
Former US president Joe Biden meets with current President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, November 13, 2024.

My Word: The ‘UN-Nobel’ peace prize nomination

UNRWA WAS not the only peculiar nomination for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Among the contenders was UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

OCTOBER 18, 2024ByLIAT COLLINS
A UNITED Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) sign lies on the ground at the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza earlier this year.

This week in Jewish history: Nobel prize, Treblinka, Rebbe Nachman

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OCTOBER 18, 2024BySTEVEN DRUCKER
COPY OF original Russian-language edition of ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ covertly published by the CIA.

Japan nuclear bomb survivors win Nobel Peace Prize

Nihon Hidankyo praised for efforts to achieve a nuclear-free world

OCTOBER 11, 2024ByREUTERS
Koichi Kawano, a survivor of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki, speaks to the press after the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner was announced, in Nagasaki, Japan, August 11, 2024, in this photo taken by Kyodo.

UNRWA retains Nobel Peace Prize candidacy despite evidence proving its ties to Hamas

Approximately 12,000 people signed a petition urging the Peace Research Institute Oslo to reconsider UNRWA’s candidacy for the Nobel Prize.

OCTOBER 10, 2024ByEYAL GREEN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Tzav 9 protesters outside of UNRWA Jerusalem offices, March 20, 2024.

From Kfar Aza to the world: A powerful portrait of Israel’s solitude - opinion

Bernard Lévy recounts his harrowing experience in Israel following the October 7th Hamas attack, capturing the deep isolation and suffering of the Jewish state and highlighting its isolation.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024ByARSEN OSTROVSKY
A TATTERED Israeli flag flies in Kfar Aza, one of the kibbutzim attacked by Hamas.

This week in Jewish history: The start of the IDF draft and the Daf Yomi cycle

A highly abridged version of the daily Dust & Stars.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024BySTEVEN DRUCKER
CELEBRATING SIYUM HASHAS, the completion of the ‘Daf Yomi,’ a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of studying the Talmud, at Har Etzion Yeshiva.