Israel: Culture#
World Heritage#
- Masada
- Old City of Acre
- White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement
- Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
- Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev
- Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee
- Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves
- Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves
Nobel Prize Winners (8)#
Here persons are counted for the country they born in or if their affiliation is with this country.| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert J. Aumann | Economics | 2005 | "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" |
| Aaron Ciechanover | Chemistry | 2004 | "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" |
| Avram Hershko | Chemistry | 2004 | "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" |
| Daniel Kahneman | Economics | 2002 | "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty" |
| Yitzhak Rabin | Peace | 1994 | "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" |
| Dan Shechtman | Chemistry | 2011 | "for the discovery of quasicrystals" |
| Arieh Warshel | Chemistry | 2013 | "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems" |
| Ada E. Yonath | Chemistry | 2009 | "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" |