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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

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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
A father seen with his kids at home after the cabinet voted not to open schools in hot zones, in the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, September 1, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
September 7, 2020, 6:57 am
Health experts, ER heads join chorus against new lockdown
Open letter from some 90 doctors and researchers, including Nobel laureate in Chemistry, urges Israel to adopt Swedish model and try to reach herd immunity while shielding elderly
By ToI Staff
Illustrative images of Nobelist Robert Yisrael Aumann and his granddaughter studying Talmud in Uri Rosenwaks' documentary series, 'The Nobelists' (Courtesy Ruth Diskin Films)
April 22, 2015, 2:24 pm
Lives of struggle, rejection, vindication: The essence of Israel’s ‘Nobelists’
Filmmaker’s documentary reveals the personalities of recent Nobel laureates, explaining their work in terms even his mother-in-law can understand
By Jessica Steinberg
Alice Herz-Sommer, pictured here on her 107th birthday, was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. She died at 110. (Polly Hancock/JTA)
September 24, 2014, 4:36 pm
The Jews who inspired us in 5774
From age eight to 111, these individuals and groups moved the Jewish world
By JTA
Ahmet Uzumcu, right, Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons receives the Nobel Peace Prize from Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland in City Hall Oslo Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Cornelius Poppe / NTB scanpix)
December 10, 2013, 10:09 pm
Weapons watchdog receives Nobel Peace Prize
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was formed to enforce international convention outlawing non-conventional arms
By Karl Ritter and NILS MYKLEBOST
Israeli chemist Arieh Warshel accepts the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 (screen capture: Channel 2)
December 10, 2013, 6:44 pm
Israeli professors awarded Nobel Prize in Stockholm
Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt won the award for development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
By Adiv Sterman
From left to right, 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry winners Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus. (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia, Harvard University)
October 10, 2013, 12:57 pm
Putting the ‘no’ in Nobel
Israeli papers are a strange mix of pride and gloom over Israel’s (non) win of two Nobel prizes in chemistry
By Joshua Davidovich
Hebrew University President Menachem Ben-Sasson (photo credit: Flash90)
October 10, 2013, 6:15 am
Those Nobels could have been Israel’s, says Hebrew U president
Two of the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry are apparent victims of the country’s ‘brain drain’ to the US
By David Shamah
Martin Karplus at his home in Cambridge, Mass., after being awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Josh Reynolds)
October 10, 2013, 1:01 am
Daughter of non-Israeli Nobel chemistry winner lives in Israel
Rebecca Karplus, a family physician and internal medicine specialist, has worked in medical field here for three decades
By Adiv Sterman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call with Nobel Prize winner Arieh Warshel, Wednesday, October 9, 2013 (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)
October 9, 2013, 6:51 pm
PM, president laud Israeli Nobel prize winner
Peres says the achievements of Prof. Arieh Warshel will no doubt contribute to further scientific advances
By Adiv Sterman
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
From left to right, 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry winners Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia, Harvard University)
October 9, 2013, 12:53 pm
3 Jewish professors — two of them Israeli — share 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Kibbutz-born Arieh Warshel fought in ’67 and ’73 wars; Pretoria-born Michael Levitt taught at the Weizmann Institute for most of the 1980s; Martin Karplus fled as a child to the US from Nazi-occupied Austria. Prestigious prize awarded ‘for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems’
By Gavriel Fiske
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