List of Israeli Nobel laureates

Monument honoring Daniel Kahneman on Nobel Laureates Promenade in Rishon LeZion, Israel

Since 1948, fourteen Israelis have been awarded the Nobel Prize, the most honorable award in various fields including chemistry, economics, literature and peace. Israel has more Nobel Prizes per capita than Germany, the United States and France. It has more laureates, in real numbers, than India, China and Spain. Israel is 11th in Nobel prize per capita, just after the United Kingdom at 10th. If only scientific laureates are taken into account, Israel is 13th in Nobel prize per capita, just after Germany, 11th, and the United States, 12th.

Laureates

The following is a complete list of Israeli Nobel laureates.

Year	Laureate(s)		Prize motivation	Field
1966		Shmuel Yosef Agnon	"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people" [1]	Literature
1978		Menachem Begin	"for the peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt" [2]	Peace
1994		Shimon Peres	"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" [3]
		Yitzhak Rabin
2002		Daniel Kahneman	"for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science" [4]	Economics
2004		Aaron Ciechanover	"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" [5]	Chemistry
		Avram Hershko
2005		Robert Aumann	"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" [6]	Economics
2009		Ada Yonath	"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" [7]	Chemistry
2011		Dan Shechtman	"for the discovery of quasicrystals" [8]
2013		Michael Levitt	"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems" [9]
		Arieh Warshel
2021		Joshua Angrist	"for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships" [10]	Economics
2025		Joel Mokyr	“for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” [11]

See also

• Biography portal
• Israel portal

• List of countries by Nobel laureates
• List of Israel Prize recipients
• List of Jewish Nobel laureates
• List of Nobel laureates by country

References

1. "Shmuel Agnon - Facts". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 30 October 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
2. "Menachem Begin - Facts". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
3. "The Nobel Peace Prize 1994". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
4. "Daniel Kahneman - Facts". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
5. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
6. "Robert J. Aumann - Facts". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 30 October 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
7. "Ada E. Yonath - Facts". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 8 July 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
8. "Dan Shechtman - Facts". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
9. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
10. "Joshua D. Angrist". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
11. "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025".

External links

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