Nobel Prize

This week in Jewish history: Nobel prize winners, biochemists, and the Baba Sali

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

Baba Baruch, heir of Baba Sali, speaks to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir during traditional ceremonies in Netivot, 1988.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is pictured arriving for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, shown attending a separate event later in the day, in this combination of images taken at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 15, 2026.

Maria Corina Machado gives Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal

 FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2, 2022.

UN rights experts, influential women condemn Iran’s 'sham' trial of activist Zahra Tabari

 Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures as she addresses supporters at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela January 9, 2025.

María Corina Machado reveals she fled Venezuela with help from US government - report


Technion researchers discover unique peptides with anti-cancer potential

In recent years, Technion researchers have developed a new approach to influencing the ubiquitin mechanisms.

 Dr. Nabieh Ayoub

Israeli firm NeoTX tries to treat cancer by 'tricking' immune system

Three Nobel Prize winners and an immigrant to Israel ‘trick’ the immune system to fight the disease known as cancer on its own.

 A graphic showing how the NeoTX method of fighting cancer works.

Is there a connection between Nobel Prize winners and the Technion?

Two of the three Nobel Prize in Physics laureates for 2022 received honorary doctoral degrees from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

The Computer Science Faculty building at Technion University in Haifa, Israel

Nobel Prizes and principles: We must always remember our humanity - opinion

What could we have had if the Holocaust never happened?

 Nobel prize

New Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux's repeatedly supported BDS

Ernaux has called to boycott Israeli cultural events, release terrorists and called Israel apartheid.

 French novelist Annie Ernaux talks to the media after being announced as the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, in Cergy-Pontoise, France October 6, 2022.

This Jewish Nobel Prize laureate has helped find new ways to treat pain

No. 19 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2022: Nobel Prize laureate Prof. David Jay Julius.

 Jewish Nobel Prize laureate Prof. David Jay Julius.

A US president's road map to the Nobel Peace Prize - analysis

Obama-Biden also wanted to reset its relations with both Israel and the Palestinians and chose to do so by staking out positions that were critical of Israel.

An 18-carat gold Nobel Peace Prize medal, awarded in 1921 to Norway's Christian L. Lange, is seen in an exhibition at the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo December 9, 2009.

Meet the winners of the EMET Prize, Israel’s Nobel

Watch the awards presentation of the 20th EMET Prize Awards here.

 EMET Prize

Nobel Prize winner opens International Writers Festival in Jerusalem

Olga Tokarczuk talks to The Jerusalem Post on the influence of books.

 NOBEL PRIZE winner Olga Tokarczuk in Jerusalem this week

The Nobel Prize winner who conducted experiments without consent

Julius Wagner-Jauregg took psychiatric patients who couldn’t move and intentionally infected them with malaria, and then won a Nobel Prize for it.

Bust of Julius Wagner-Jauregg  in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna