Albert Einstein

75 years of investing in Israel: The Genius Investor

Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds in history, purchased the 200,000th Israel bond for $500 on October 30, 1951.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IN COLLABORATION WITH ISRAEL BONDS
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion visits Albert Einstein at Princeton University in 1951.
IMAGES OF Albert Einstein and Emma Goldman are featured in "Ask Jewish Lives," an AI bot that bases its conversations on the "Jewish Lives" series of biographies.

New AI tool allows users to chat with Jewish historical figures

Jewish Lives says the site is designed to “enrich reader exploration of the Jewish experience.” They’ve created lesson plans to help educators use Ask Jewish Lives in the classroom.

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The commemorative stamp, with a face value of 9 shekels, was designed by Studio Mench and is available for purchase through the Israel Post Philatelic Service website.

Hebrew University marks centennial with official new commemorative stamp

University officials said the centennial marks both a reflection on past achievements, including ten Nobel Prizes and two Turing Awards, and a framework for future growth.

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Albert Einstein's letter, discovered by Tel Aviv’s Gnazim Institute, the world’s largest archive of Hebrew literature, November 2025.

Newly-discovered Einstein letter surfaces in Tel Aviv, reveals praise for Jewish assistant

The letter has not yet been authenticated but is most likely genuine, according to external expert opinion given to TPS-IL.

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Hebrew University's centennial: Einstein's legacy and the guardian of a scientific icon

Einstein's letters, theories, and Jewish legacy will live on in the hills of Jerusalem at the Hebrew University.

APRIL 2, 2025ByALEX WINSTON
Professor Hanoch Gutfruend is a physics professor, former Hebrew University president, and Academic Head of the Einstein Archive. He showed The Jerusalem Post around the archives to mark 100 years of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

100 years of innovation: Hebrew University of Jerusalem celebrates centennial

Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Nachman Bialik, and Martin Buber were among the visionaries who founded the institution.

APRIL 1, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An aerial view of Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Mount Scopus campus.

'After Images': The tragedy of Albert Einstein’s cousin Robert - review

The cold-blooded execution of Robert Einstein’s family at the Focardo estate near Florence on August 3, 1944, reached beyond the areas generally depicted in Holocaust literature.

MARCH 2, 2025ByABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
A memorial commemorating the murder of Robert Einstein's family, located at the Badiuzza cemetery in Italy.

Was J. Robert Oppenheimer a Zionist? Sort of - opinion

Oppenheimer’s visits to Israel and his advisory role at the Weizmann Institute do not make him a Zionist. However, two speeches that he gave indicate that he empathized with the Zionist enterprise.

DECEMBER 17, 2024ByJACOB SIVAK
CILLIAN MURPHY plays J. Robert Oppenheimer in ‘Oppenheimer,’ written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.

What did Einstein think of Zionism, Jewish nationalism? - review

Volume 17 contains an intriguing expression of Albert Einstein’s strong support for Zionism in the early 1920s.

DECEMBER 7, 2024ByNEVILLE TELLER
Albert Einstein

The Einstein effect: How a Jewish scientist hit mainstream culture - opinion

Cohen’s favorite Einstein quote is 'have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.'

JULY 13, 2024ByBRIAN BLUM
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Grapevine, May 15, 2024: Confusion between national defense and racism

Eurovision, Einstein and the global politics.

MAY 15, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
EDEN GOLAN, representing Israel, performs ‘Hurricane’ during the Grand Final of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, in Malmo, Sweden, last week.

Jewish widow gives $1 billion to NYC medical school to pay for student tuition

Dr. Ruth Gottesman is making the donation from the fortune made by her late husband David "Sandy" Gottesman, a Wall Street financier and early Berkshire Hathaway investor.

FEBRUARY 26, 2024ByREUTERS
Un empleado trabaja con células madre en el laboratorio del doctor Ali Ertuerk en Múnich, Alemania 23 de abril de 2019.

Right again, Einstein! Study shows how antimatter responds to gravity

Under current theory, the Big Bang explosion that initiated the universe should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. This, however, does not seem to be the case.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023ByREUTERS, JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
A lonely Milky Way Analogue galaxy, too massive for its wall. The background image shows the distribution of dark matter (green and blue) and galaxies (here seen as tiny yellow dots) in a thin slice of the cubic volume in which we expect to find one of such rare massive galaxies.

Revealed in a letter: Albert Einstein's secret plan to save Jewish professor from Nazi Germany

The letter reveals Einstein's desperate appeal to Scottish philosopher Sir William David Ross to aid in the rescue of a Jewish German philosopher targeted by Nazis.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Albert Einstein