Nobel Prize

After Oslo Snub, Israel Laureate Nominates President Trump for ‘Israeli Nobel,’ the Nation’s Most Prestigious Award

Following what many in Israel considered a snub by the Nobel Committee on Friday, after it awarded the Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, Israel Prize laureate Ronny Douek formally nominated U.S. President Donald J. Trump for the country’s highest civilian honor, hailing him as “a leader who, more than any other in our generation, has proven through his actions an unwavering commitment to Israel’s security and to peace in the Middle East.” 

Republican presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the

V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize-Winning Author, Dies at 85

V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing in such novels as “A Bend in the River” and “A House for Mr. Biswas” and brittle, misanthropic personality made him one of the world’s most admired and contentious writers, died at his London home, his family said. He was 85.

This 2001 file photo shows British author V.S. Naipaul in Salisbury, England. The Trinidad

Israelis Mourn Elie Wiesel As One Of Their Own

Ynetnews reports: Elie Wiesel never lived in Israel, but on Sunday the country mourned the death of the esteemed author and Nobel peace laureate as though it had lost a national icon. A frequent visitor who was fluent in Hebrew, Wiesel

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Nobel Prize For Economics Still Contentious After 75 Winners

For economists, who often disagree with one another and get their forecasts wrong, the idea of a Nobel Prize for economics remains controversial after 75 years. This year’s winner of the “Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”

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