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Following the scientist's death at the age of 87, high-tech entrepreneur Etgar Spivak revealed a personal correspondence from 2021, in which Yonath responded to a request for a greeting for his young daughter who dreamed of doing research: "Curiosity is the most important trait"

Prof. Ada Yonath, the 2009 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry and Israel Prize laureate, has passed away at the age of 87. A pioneer in ribosome research, her work was instrumental in the development of new antibiotics.

Yonath was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for her research on ribosomes. She worked for many years at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and was a recipient of the Israel Prize.

A philosophy professor in Naples has proposed awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to children in the Gaza Strip, sparking a heated debate in Italy. While the initiative has gained support from left-wing politicians, the Italian Jewish community has strongly condemned it as morally biased, arguing that it ignores the suffering of Israeli children and the role of Hamas.

The former leader of Myanmar met with a Red Cross delegation for the first time since the 2021 military coup. In photos released by the junta, she appears smiling and in good health, after years of uncertainty surrounding her condition.