Tel Aviv University economist among three Nobel Prize laureates sharing prize

Joel Mokyr, a Tel Aviv University scientist and dual citizen of Israel and the United States, on Monday won the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Philippe Aghion of the College de France and the INSEAD business school, and Peter Howitt, a professor emeritus of economics at Brown University. Read more

Dumbing down the ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’

Did the Jewish people really need their own Nobel Prize? To the three wealthy Russian Jewish business “oligarchs” who endowed the Genesis Prize with $50 million in contributions, the answer was “yes.” Read more

Jewish poet Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize in Literature

American Jewish poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” said the Nobel Committee on Thursday. Read more

Israel’s latest Nobel laureate in chemistry on understanding how enzymes work

What is behind Israel’s recent string of Nobel Prize winners?…writes Alina Dain Sharon. Read more