Nobel Prize

Israel risks winning the war while losing the world - opinion

Israel is on a slippery slope toward a dangerous defeat – economic and diplomatic, and perhaps even in the security arena when a new US administration takes office in just over two years.

PAOK fans gather in the city center to protest against Maccabi Tel Aviv - Thessaloniki, Greece - September 24, 2025 General view of a Palestine flag as a banner is displayed during the protest reading "your pitch your choice boycott Israel."
NOBEL PEACE Center director Kjersti Flogstad and Norwegian Nobel Committee head Jorgen Watne Frydnes talk with this year’s Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay via video link at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, on October 10, 2026.

My Word: The Nobel non-Peace Prize - opinion

International lawyer Raphael Lemkin helped draft the Genocide Convention, which maps out prevention and punishment for the crime of genocide.

My relative defined ‘genocide,’ honoring him means scrutinizing Pillay’s Israel findings - opinion

 PROTESTERS MARCH out of Kings College Circle after leaving an anti-Israel student encampment at the University of Toronto, following an Ontario judge order for the protesters to leave their two-month-old encampment, in July.

Jews must resist the pressure to follow the anti-Zionist crowd - opinion


Trump's Middle East diplomacy deserves the Nobel Peace Prize - opinion

The Nobel Committee must award the prize based on results, not ideology. The Abraham Accords brought tangible peace to a region defined by turmoil, proving that diplomacy can persist over division.

 NOBEL PEACE Prize winner and 39th US president, the late Jimmy Carter greets a torchlight procession from the balcony of the Grand Hotel in downtown Oslo, Norway, in December 2002. US President-elect Donald Trump deserves the Nobel based on the Abraham Accords, the writer believes.

This week in Jewish history: Jerusalem seized, Nazi death camps begin

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 The surrender of Jerusalem, December 9, 1917.

Trump and Biden can forge peace in Israel – and earn Trump the Nobel Prize - comment

Trump has a chance to transcend these odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize by joining forces with President Joe Biden to end the war in Israel.

Former US president Joe Biden meets with current President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, November 13, 2024.

My Word: The ‘UN-Nobel’ peace prize nomination

UNRWA WAS not the only peculiar nomination for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Among the contenders was UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

 A UNITED Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) sign lies on the ground at the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza earlier this year.

This week in Jewish history: Nobel prize, Treblinka, Rebbe Nachman

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 COPY OF original Russian-language edition of ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ covertly published by the CIA.

Japan nuclear bomb survivors win Nobel Peace Prize

Nihon Hidankyo praised for efforts to achieve a nuclear-free world

 Koichi Kawano, a survivor of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki, speaks to the press after the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner was announced, in Nagasaki, Japan, August 11, 2024, in this photo taken by Kyodo.

UNRWA retains Nobel Peace Prize candidacy despite evidence proving its ties to Hamas

Approximately 12,000 people signed a petition urging the Peace Research Institute Oslo to reconsider UNRWA’s candidacy for the Nobel Prize.

 Tzav 9 protesters outside of UNRWA Jerusalem offices, March 20, 2024.

From Kfar Aza to the world: A powerful portrait of Israel’s solitude - opinion

Bernard Lévy recounts his harrowing experience in Israel following the October 7th Hamas attack, capturing the deep isolation and suffering of the Jewish state and highlighting its isolation.

 A TATTERED Israeli flag flies in Kfar Aza, one of the kibbutzim attacked by Hamas.

This week in Jewish history: The start of the IDF draft and the Daf Yomi cycle

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 CELEBRATING SIYUM HASHAS, the completion of the ‘Daf Yomi,’ a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of studying the Talmud, at Har Etzion Yeshiva.

J’accuse! What the world owes Jewish people - opinion

Here is my own “j’accuse” to those young and old antisemites who are clearly ignorant about Jews and Judaism and the light we have brought to the world through the ages.

 OPEN LETTER published January 13, 1898, in ‘L’Aurore’ by Emile Zola in response to the Dreyfus Affair, in which Zola addressed French president Félix Faure and accused his government of antisemitism.