Israel nobel prizes

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.

Israeli Nobel laureate Ada Yonath pictured in 2016.
THE EMET PRIZE was envisioned as being the Israeli equivalent of the Nobel and, in fact, most Israeli Nobel winners first received the Emet

2022 EMET Prize winners announced

 Rosh Hashana event celebrates aliyah

The sweet and less sweet in Angrist’s Nobel Prize - analysis

Nobel Laureate Prof.Aaron Ciechanover

How do you win a Nobel Prize?


David Grossman wins Man Booker Prize

Israeli author beats out Amos Oz, 4 others for prestigious literary award.

Novelist David Grossman

'The Israeli Nobel' opens 2017 nominations

The EMET Prize is given "for excellence in academic and professional achievements that have far-reaching influence and make a significant contribution to society."

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu congratulates 2016 EMET Prize laureates in Jerusalem last month.

It’s not about the money

Recently, we have revisited the question of the efficacy of such prizes.

Wolf Prize laureates Prof. Trudy Frances Charlene Mackay (R) and Lewis Cantley, from Weill Cornell Medical College

Grapevine: Welcoming Nobel laureates to WSCI

News from around the nation.

Ada Yonath

The POSTman Knocks Twice: Yitzhak Rabin, man of contradictions

On the outside, this was a gruff and dour man, without a saving social grace; Rabin I see with a cigarette and a scotch and soda and a grim, closed face.

Slain Israeli Prime Minister Rabin with former US President Bill Clinton and former PLO President Yasser Arafat after signing the Oslo Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

Nobel laureate Shechtman says he may run for office if presidential bid fails

Dan Shechtman expresses confidence that he has enough support among MKs to make it to second round of presidential elections.

Dan Shechtman