Ten Nobel Prize Winners

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Ten Nobel Prize Winners

Ten laureates tied to Israel, in date order. Yasser Arafat shared the 1994 Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

1 S. Y. Agnonש״י עגנוןLITERATURE, 1966 Shared the prize with the German poet Nelly Sachs. He was the first Israeli to win a Nobel Prize.

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2 Menachem Beginמנחם בגיןPEACE, 1978 Shared the prize with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat for the Camp David Accords.

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3 Yitzhak Rabinיצחק רביןPEACE, 1994 Shared the prize with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat for the Oslo Accords.

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4 Shimon Peresשמעון פרסPEACE, 1994 Shared the prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the Oslo Accords.

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5 Daniel Kahnemanדניאל כהנמןECONOMICS, 2002

Born in Tel Aviv and trained at the Hebrew University. He shared the prize with Vernon Smith for work on how people decide under uncertainty.

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6 Aaron Ciechanoverאהרן צ׳חנוברCHEMISTRY, 2004 Shared the prize with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose for discovering how cells mark proteins for destruction.

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7 Avram Hershkoאברהם הרשקוCHEMISTRY, 2004 Shared the prize with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose. Both worked at the Technion in Haifa.

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8 Robert Aumannישראל אומןECONOMICS, 2005 A professor at the Hebrew University who shared the prize with Thomas Schelling for work on game theory and conflict.

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9 Ada Yonathעדה יונתCHEMISTRY, 2009 Mapped the structure of the ribosome. She is the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel Prize in science.

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10 Dan Shechtmanדן שכטמןCHEMISTRY, 2011 A Technion scientist who won for the discovery of quasicrystals.

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