Nobel Prize

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.

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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.
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.

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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.

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NARGES MOHAMMADI sits in her apartment in Tehran, Iran, on December 18, 2024.

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.

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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.

MARCH 8, 2023ByYAAKOV FREEDMAN
‘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.

MARCH 3, 2023ByREUTERS
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.

FEBRUARY 12, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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Belarus puts Nobel Prize-winning rights defender on trial

Byalyatski, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties in October, was arrested in 2021 along with two co-workers.

JANUARY 5, 2023ByREUTERS
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski, who co-founded the Viasna human rights group, sits inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus January 5, 2023.

Russia wants Ukraine to be 'dependent dictatorship' - Nobel Peace Prize winner

Byalyatski's wife accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in his name and in the name of all "prisoners of conscience in Belarus."

DECEMBER 10, 2022ByREUTERS
Natalia Pinchuk, wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Byalyatski from Belarus, addresses the news conference at the Nobel Institute, as Bialiatski, Memorial and CCL receive the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize for their work for human rights in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, in Oslo, Norway December 9, 2022.

Technion researchers discover unique peptides with anti-cancer potential

In recent years, Technion researchers have developed a new approach to influencing the ubiquitin mechanisms.

NOVEMBER 8, 2022ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Dr. Nabieh Ayoub

Israeli firm NeoTX tries to treat cancer by 'tricking' immune system

Three Nobel Prize winners and an immigrant to Israel ‘trick’ the immune system to fight the disease known as cancer on its own.

OCTOBER 31, 2022ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A graphic showing how the NeoTX method of fighting cancer works.

Is there a connection between Nobel Prize winners and the Technion?

Two of the three Nobel Prize in Physics laureates for 2022 received honorary doctoral degrees from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

OCTOBER 8, 2022ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
The Computer Science Faculty building at Technion University in Haifa, Israel

Nobel Prizes and principles: We must always remember our humanity - opinion

What could we have had if the Holocaust never happened?

OCTOBER 8, 2022ByRICHARD SHAVEI-TZION
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New Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux's repeatedly supported BDS

Ernaux has called to boycott Israeli cultural events, release terrorists and called Israel apartheid.

OCTOBER 6, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE
French novelist Annie Ernaux talks to the media after being announced as the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, in Cergy-Pontoise, France October 6, 2022.