Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize, Israel Prize laureate, Ada Yonath, dies aged 87

Professor Ada Yonath won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 and the Israel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. She was born in Jerusalem and worked at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.

|ByJAMES GENN
Israeli Nobel laureate Ada Yonath pictured in 2016.
Map of Strait of Hormuz published by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Navy of the area controlled by the Iranian Armed Forces, May 4, 2026.

Oil and honor: The dire straits of martial propaganda in the US-Iran conflict - opinion

The West’s greatest vulnerability is not its enemies, but its own political and social fractures.

|BySINAI TURAN
A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023.

Iran keeps Nobel laureate from urgent heart care as experts warn her life is in danger

"She is suffering from terrible headaches, nausea, and chest pain. That is what we are very worried about, her heart," her brother Hamidreza Mohammadi said in an interview.

|ByREUTERS
An empty space showing that Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was not present during the award ceremony at Oslo City Hall, Norway December 10, 2023.

Nobel laureate Mohammadi in Iran hospital after 'cardiac crisis', foundation says

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi remains in unstable condition after being rushed from prison to a hospital in Iran following a reported cardiac crisis and loss of consciousness.

|ByREUTERS

Tehran attacks 'anti-Iranian' move to award jailed activist Nobel Peace Prize

Mohammedi, a campaigner for women's rights and against the death penalty, is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence

OCTOBER 6, 2023ByREUTERS
Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen announces the winner of Nobel Peace Prize for 2023.

Nobel Chemistry prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots used in LED lights

Established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and chemist Alfred Nobel, the prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace have been awarded since 1901.

OCTOBER 4, 2023ByREUTERS
A view of a screen inside the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is announced, in Stockholm

Nobel Prize accidentally reveals chemistry prize winners ahead of time

The award-giving institute said the decision was still hours away.

OCTOBER 4, 2023ByREUTERS
A view of a screen inside the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is announced, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 4, 2023

Gigawatt Global sister NGO to fuel sustainability in African communities

Israeli solar pioneer Josef Abramowitz made the announcement days before he hopes to secure a Nobel Peace Prize for his climate initiatives.

OCTOBER 3, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
From right: Gigawatt Global CEO Josef Abramowitz, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, President Isaac Herzog and a Zambian student studying in Israel at the President's Residence in August 2023.

Nobel cancels Iran, Russia, and Belarus invites to annual prize awards

Last year, the foundation left out the ambassadors of Russia and its ally Belarus because of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023ByREUTERS
Facade of the Nobel peace center in Oslo, Norway

Reconsidering Henry Kissinger's legacy - opinion

Kissinger recently waffled quite awkwardly – no, embarrassingly – about how to best address the raging conflagration in Ukraine. He deserves attention, but veneration too? Most assuredly not.

JUNE 17, 2023ByMARK ELOVITZ
THE WRITER poses with Henry Kissinger in a photo taken in 1990.

Who are the 2023 'Israeli Nobel' Wolf Prize winners?

The eight outstanding scientists and artists from abroad received their awards in the fields of chemistry, medicine, mathematics, agriculture and art.

JUNE 16, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, President Isaac Herzog and Michal Herzog (front row center) with the winners of the Wolf Prizes for 2023.

We interviewed an AI chatbot. Here's what it had to say on Israel

From Jews and Nobel prizes to the leaders of the Zionist movement, this is what an AI chatbot thinks.

JUNE 2, 2023ByMICHAEL KLEINER/MAARIV
Artificial intelligence (illustrative)

Grapevine May 25, 2023: Georgia on my mind

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 27, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
ESTHER PANITCH with Prof. Yoram Weiss.

Israel would have more Nobel winners if it invested more in research - Prof. Shectman

“Every US government department has research labs, so most Nobel laureates are from the US."

APRIL 27, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Prof. Yisrael Aumann, Prof. Dan Shechtman and Michal Schwartz in a panel at the Jerusalem Post and Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem Celebrate the Faces of Israel conference.