# Every Israeli Nobel laureate

From Shmuel Yosef Agnon, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966, to economist Joel Mokyr in 2025: the 14 Israeli citizens who have won a Nobel Prize, most of them in chemistry and economics. Ada Yonath, in 2009, was the first Israeli woman to win.

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## Top 14

1. **Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Literature 1966. For his narrative art drawn from the life of the Jewish people. The first Israeli laureate.
2. **Menachem Begin (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Peace Prize 1978. For the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, shared with Anwar Sadat.
3. **Shimon Peres (1994)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Peace Prize 1994. For the Oslo Accords, shared with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.
4. **Yitzhak Rabin (1994)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Peace Prize 1994. Assassinated the following year, in 1995.
5. **Daniel Kahneman (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Economics 2002. For integrating insights from psychology into economics.
6. **Aaron Ciechanover (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004. For the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, with Avram Hershko.
7. **Avram Hershko (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004.
8. **Robert Aumann (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Economics 2005. For game-theory analysis of conflict and cooperation.
9. **Ada Yonath (2009)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009. For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. The first Israeli woman to win a Nobel Prize.
10. **Dan Shechtman (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. For the discovery of quasicrystals.
11. **Michael Levitt (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013. For multiscale models of complex chemical systems, with Arieh Warshel.
12. **Arieh Warshel (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013.
13. **Joshua Angrist (2021)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Economics 2021. For methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.
14. **Joel Mokyr (2025)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Economics 2025. For identifying the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress.

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