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People seen studying at the National Library in Jerusalem, on December 30, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 7, 2023, 6:24 pm
Nobel Prize winners plead for halt to government takeover of National Library
Seven laureates warn that placing archive institute’s board under political control will threaten its very existence, academic freedom and research
By ToI Staff
File: Then-science minister Daniel Hershkowitz (center) in a meeting in July 2012 with Israeli Nobel laureates Ada Yonath (left) and Aaron Ciechanover (Gil Yohanan/Flash90)
February 12, 2023, 2:50 pm
Israeli Nobel winners warn against judicial overhaul in letter to Netanyahu, Herzog
Avram Hershko, Ada Yonath, Aaron Ciechanover, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel, Roger Kornberg, Daniel Kahneman raise ‘deep concern’ over effect of proposal on scientific research
By Ash Obel
Israeli Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath, who is also a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, at a press conference in Rehovot. (Flash90)
August 7, 2018, 5:31 am
Ecuador honors first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize
South American state’s legislature hails Ada Yonath for helping to ‘strengthen inter-exchange opportunities’ between the countries
By JTA
The Nobel chemistry medal (photo credit: Courtesy)
October 9, 2013, 2:45 pm
Tiny Israel a Nobel heavyweight, especially in chemistry
Latest Israeli laureates, Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt, are the fifth and sixth winners of the chemistry prize in under a decade
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Illustration from the new book 'Tiny Dynamo,' which promotes the most important and interesting innovations to emerge from Israel. (photo credit: Courtesy Megan Flood)
April 15, 2013, 5:24 am
65 years of innovation, from Rummikub to the ‘God Particle’
A timeline chronicling vital, fascinating breakthroughs produced by Israelis in the lifespan of the modern state
By Marcella Rosen
French physicist Serge Haroche in Paris. Haroche and American David Wineland share the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics. (photo credit: AP/CNRS/Christophe Lebedinsky)
October 29, 2012, 7:22 am
French-Jewish Nobel laureate: I never saw an anti-Israel bias in academia
Serge Haroche, honored this month for work in quantum physics, has no plans to meet with PM or president during Israel visit
By Raphael Ahren
Left to right: Professor Hagit Yaron-Meser, Chairperson of the Open University; Prize winners Osnat Zomer-Penn, Dr. Efrat Shamah-Yaakovi , and Gili Bisker; and Ruth Arnon, director of the Israeli Academy of Sciences (Photo credit: Lamm and Velich Photo Studio)
July 24, 2012, 4:24 am
Israeli scientists in the running for worldwide award, even if UNESCO still can’t find Israel
Despite the fact that Israel does not fit into any of UNESCO’s world groupings, three women still have a chance to win up to $100,000
By David Shamah
File: Former science minister Daniel Hershkowitz (second from left), in a meeting in July 2012 with Israeli Nobel laureates Ada Yonath (left), Aaron Ciechanover (second from right), and Israel Aumann (right). (Gil Yohanan/Flash90)
From the WebJuly 13, 2012, 3:17 pm
Journalists ponder tiny Israel’s huge Nobel successes
The Hindu: Israeli prizewinners talked about the secret to winning the international awards, although, like their interlocutors, they weren’t too sure themselves
February 28, 2012, 6:18 pm
Eureka! UNESCO’s science study set to discover Israel
For over a year, UNESCO refused to correct a global science report that omitted Nobel Prize-winning Israel. Only a concerted diplomatic effort — and perhaps a ‘Palestine’-prompted funding crisis — secured a promise to make amends
By David Shamah
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