Every Israeli Nobel laureate
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1966) · Menachem Begin (1978) · Shimon Peres (1994). (Updated Oct 12, 2026.)
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
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1966)
Nobel Prize in Literature 1966. For his narrative art drawn from the life of the Jewish people. The first Israeli laureate.
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Menachem Begin (1978)
Nobel Peace Prize 1978. For the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, shared with Anwar Sadat.
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Shimon Peres (1994)
Nobel Peace Prize 1994. For the Oslo Accords, shared with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.
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Yitzhak Rabin (1994)
Nobel Peace Prize 1994. Assassinated the following year, in 1995.
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Daniel Kahneman (2002)
Nobel Prize in Economics 2002. For integrating insights from psychology into economics.
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Aaron Ciechanover (2004)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004. For the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, with Avram Hershko.
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Avram Hershko (2004)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004.
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Robert Aumann (2005)
Nobel Prize in Economics 2005. For game-theory analysis of conflict and cooperation.
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Ada Yonath (2009)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009. For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. The first Israeli woman to win a Nobel Prize.
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Dan Shechtman (2011)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. For the discovery of quasicrystals.
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Michael Levitt (2013)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013. For multiscale models of complex chemical systems, with Arieh Warshel.
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Arieh Warshel (2013)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013.
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Joshua Angrist (2021)
Nobel Prize in Economics 2021. For methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.
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Joel Mokyr (2025)
Nobel Prize in Economics 2025. For identifying the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress.
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