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 total, 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" Literature 1978 Menachem Begin "for the peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt" Peace 1994 Shimon Peres "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" Yitzhak Rabin 2002 Daniel Kahneman "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science" Economics 2004 Aaron Ciechanover "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" Chemistry Avram Hershko 2005 Robert Aumann "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" Economics 2009 Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" Chemistry 2011 Dan Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals" 2013 Michael Levitt "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems" Arieh Warshel 2021 Joshua Angrist "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships" Economics2025Joel Mokyr“for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress”
See also
List of countries by Nobel laureates List of Israel Prize recipients List of Jewish Nobel laureates List of Nobel laureates by country
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