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Yisrael (Robert) Aumann

Demonstrators block a road and clash with police as they protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
March 2, 2023, 5:22 pm
120 Israeli academics express support for government’s judicial overhaul plan
Public letter by professors from various fields, including Nobelist, argues judiciary took excessive power from legislative, executive branches, calls for ‘broad agreement’
By Jeremy Sharon
An aerial view of solar panels near the southern resort city of Eilat. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
November 19, 2019, 6:05 pm
112 top scientists call on government to abort plan for gas-fired power stations
Quoting research on climate-related dangers of natural gas and with solar power now cheaper than gas, experts say Energy Ministry should move straight to renewables
By Sue Surkes
Professor Yisrael Robert Aumann. (Flash90)
September 17, 2019, 6:57 pm
Nobel winner says extremist party sent fake messages touting his support
Yisrael Aumann says he doesn’t disagree with Otzma Yehudit’s views but won’t vote for it because he doesn’t believe it will enter Knesset; elections committee rejects complaint
By ToI Staff
Israeli Nobel Prize winner Prof. Robert Yisrael Aumann (right) speaks with journalist Matthew Kalman at a Times of Israel Presents event produced in partnership with Beit Avi Chai in Jerusalem, December 12, 2018. (Dana Bar Siman Tov)
December 13, 2018, 4:05 pm
Israeli-Palestinian peace a matter of incentives, says Nobel laureate Aumann
At a packed Jerusalem event, Robert Yisrael Aumann shares his life story and dissects the conflict using game theory
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
This Feb. 13, 2006 file photo shows then-US president George W. Bush, right, presenting the National Medal of Science to Dr. Kenneth J. Arrow, left, from Stanford University, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
February 23, 2017, 4:56 am
Nobel-winning economist Kenneth J. Arrow dies at 95
His wide-ranging work ‘fundamentally altered’ fields as diverse as elections, health insurance and the stock market
By AP
Oliver Sacks giving a TED talk in 2009. (CC BY Bill Holsinger-Robinson, Flickr)
August 30, 2015, 1:28 pm
Neurologist Oliver Sacks, scientific consumer of life, dies at 82
Renowned writer and thinker, born to London Jewish family, succumbs to battle with cancer after life of exploring brain’s mysteries and scientific thrill-seeking
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and ToI Staff
Former President Shimon Peres (center-left) at a panel with three Israeli Nobel Prize winners and Dr. Yossi Vardi (center-right), at the Technion in Haifa, on Wednesday, January 8, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)
June 5, 2015, 11:28 am
Nobel winners to flock to Israel, ignoring campus boycott push
The BDS movement has scored some victories recently – but Israeli academia racks up one with august August gathering
By David Shamah
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
Professor Yisrael Robert Aumann. (Flash90)
January 7, 2014, 4:09 pm
University of Haifa faculty protests snub of Nobel laureate
Executive committee declined to award honorary doctorate to economist Robert Aumann because of his political views
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
A Palestinian youth prepares to throw a stone at Israeli policemen near Jerusalem's Lion Gate, October 2009 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 10, 2013, 12:55 pm
Israeli ex-officials pelted by stones in East Jerusalem
A bus carrying three former ministers and a Nobel Prize laureate was attacked on the Mount of Olives, with no injuries
By Elhanan Miller
The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences presents the winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, in Stockholm on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Scanpix Sweden, Henrik Montgomery)
October 15, 2012, 3:16 pm
Americans with ties to Israeli academia win Nobel Prize for market research
Alvin Roth was a visiting professor in Israeli universities and Lloyd Shapley has an honorary doctorate from Hebrew U.
By AP and ToI Staff
Professor Yisrael Robert Aumann. (Flash90)
August 22, 2012, 6:14 pm
Jerusalem high school students get Nobel Prize winner as teacher
Yisrael Aumann will explain game theory to teenagers in new pilot program
By Aaron Kalman
President Shimon Peres meets with Esther Pollard prior to sending his request for her husband Jonathan's release to US President Barack Obama. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
June 10, 2012, 10:00 am
Pressure mounts on Peres to push for Pollard release
Over 70,000 Israelis, including singers, writers and academics sign online petition to free convicted spy
By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff
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