Nobel Prize

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.

 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.
 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

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

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


Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American Nobel Prize winner, died last year by assisted suicide

"I have believed since I was a teenager that the miseries and indignities of the last years of life are superfluous," he wrote in an email.

 Daniel Kahneman.

Can Israeli innovation end global world hunger? - opinion

The need for action is urgent, but the path forward is clear. Together, we can achieve a world without hunger.

NEGEV DESERT - APRIL 06 2011:Israeli farmers desert farming planting vines in a desert farm in the Negev, Israel. Israel is a world-leader in agricultural technologies despite its dry climate

Israeli Nobel laureates urge Trump to help free hostages, offer Nobel Peace Prize nomination

In a letter addressed to Trump on Wednesday, they stressed the urgent humanitarian and moral imperative of freeing the hostages.

 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the annual National Prayer Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 6, 2025.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei wins 2025 'Jewish Nobel Prize'

Genesis Prize Chairman Stan Polovets praised Milei’s support for Israel, achievements in reforming Argentina’s economy, and pursuit of justice for AMIA terror victims.

 Javier Milei at the Western Wall, February 6, 2024

This week in Jewish history: The Dreyfus Affair and birth of Zionism

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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.

 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

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 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.

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.

 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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 COPY OF original Russian-language edition of ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ covertly published by the CIA.