List of Israeli Nobel Prize Winners

Encouraged by Bertha von Suttner , the Nobel Prize has been financed since 1901 from the foundation funds of the Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) . The following Israelis received the award:

Nobel Peace Prize

• Menachem Begin 1978
• Shimon Peres 1994
• Yitzchak Rabin 1994

Nobel Prize in literature

• Samuel Agnon 1966

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• Aaron Ciechanover 2004
• Avram Hershko 2004
• Ada Yonath 2009
• Dan Shechtman 2011
• Michael Levitt 2013
• Arieh Warshel 2013

Nobel Prize in Economics

• Daniel Kahneman 2002
• Robert Aumann 2005

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