Israel

Israeli wins chemistry Nobel for quasicrystals

STOCKHOLM — Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for a discovery that faced skepticism and mockery, even prompting his expulsion from his U.S. research team, before it won widespread acceptance as a fundamental breakthrough. While doing research in the U.S. in 1982, Shechtman discovered […]

2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online

JERUSALEM — Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time this week in a project launched by Israel’s national museum and the web giant Google. The appearance of five of the […]

Rosh Hashana 5772 begins tonight

Rosh Hashana 5772: Hope and the Social Justice Movement While right-wing politicians are rolling back democratic rights in Israel, a new generation of protesters is demanding more powers for the people. The Jewish year 5771 brought two diametrically opposed developments in Israel. One was the flood of anti-democratic laws passed […]