Israel
See also: List of Jewish Nobel laureates- Dan Shechtman, Chemistry, 2011
- Ada E. Yonath, Chemistry, 2009
- Robert Aumann, born in Germany, Economics, 2005
- Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry, 2004
- Avram Hershko, born in Hungary, Chemistry, 2004
- Daniel Kahneman, Economics, 2002
- Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, 1994
- Shimon Peres, born in what was then Poland, now Belarus, Peace, 1994
- Menachem Begin, born in what was then Russia, now Belarus, Peace, 1978
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon, born in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Ukraine, Literature, 1966
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Famous quotes containing the word israel:
“There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
“For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.
“...that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 5:8.
Elijah to the king of Israel who has received a letter from the king of Syria looking for someone to cure his commander of leprosy.