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


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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 Artificial intelligence (illustrative)

Grapevine May 25, 2023: Georgia on my mind

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 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."

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.

Biden's pick to lead World Bank, Ajay Banga, is gaining support

Ajay Banga, an Indian-born American former business executive, is gaining momentum to head the World Bank.

 Ajay Banga at the World Economic Forum

To Israel's Nobel Prize-winning scientist: Don't hate haredim - opinion

For every hassidic rabbi I’ve treated, I’ve had the merit of working with an Israeli soldier. All have been special, meaningful experiences.

 ‘FOR ALL of the difficulties my religious beliefs caused me, I never once doubted my faith and used it all to fuel my passion to live in Israel,’ says the writer.

Belarus court sentences Nobel Peace Prize winner to 10 years in prison -TASS

Byalyatski is a pro-democracy activist and founder of the Viasna human rights group which provided aid to Belarusian protesters in 2020.

 Human rights activist Ales Byalyatski, founder of the organisation Viasna (Belarus), receives the 2020 Right Livelihood Award at the digital award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden December 3, 2020.

Seven Israeli Nobel laureates warn against judicial overhaul

In their letter, the Nobel Prize winners said that scientific excellence can only thrive in democratic nations with full freedom.

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