#1
Israel is #1 worldwide in R&D Expenditure as a % of GDP
#1
In the number of researchers per million population
10
Best leading research institutes in the world
#1
In publishing scientific publications per capita
#1
In the World’s Nobel Prize Laureates per capita
Bringing you the forefront of Israel’s top-level academic research
Israel’s expenditure on R&D as a percentage of its GDP is one of the highest in the world. Contributing to this innovative environment are some of the nation’s leading research institutes, renowned around the world for many breakthrough patents, inventions and discoveries across a wide range of fields ranging from, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Life Sciences and much more.
By investing greatly in higher education, Israel’s academic institutes have become a unique platform for cultivating highly qualified, educated and passionate talents. In fact, Israel has the highest number of R&D scholars per capita, and over 30% of Israel’s Bachelor students major in Science and Technology. This environment creates a one of a kind workforce that keeps challenging the academic research status quo while pushing the innovation and technology industry forward on a global scale.
It is therefore no surprise that Israel ranks # 1 in the world for having the highest ratio of Nobel Prize laureates per capita. To date, over 6 Israeli scientists coming from Israel’s leading academic research institutes, have won the Nobel Prize in a range of sciences.
Thanks to its research institutes, Israel is also a global leader in IP generation, with one of the highest rates of patents filed per capita.
RESEARCH INSTITUTES & ACADEMICS
Technion
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Weizmann
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Bar Ilan
Bar-Ilan University
IDC
IDC - The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
BEN GURION
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ISRAELI NOBLE PRIZE LAUREATES
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a writer and one of the main figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In 1966 he was awarded the Noble Prize in Literature "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people"
PROF. SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON
Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist, known for his work in the fields of decision-making and his studies on the psychology of judgement. In 2002 he received a Noble Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on behavioral economics.
PROF. DANIEL KAHNEMAN
Aaron Chiechanover is an Israeli Biologist and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and is a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2004 he received a Noble Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.
PROF. AARON CIECHANOVER
Avram Hershko is a Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist serving on the Scientific Advisory Board of Oramed Pharmaceuticals. In 2004 he received a Noble Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
PROF. AVRAM HERSHKO
Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2005 he received a Noble Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.
PROF. ROBERT AUMANN
Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer, known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. In 2009 she received a Noble Prize in Chemistry for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome. She is the first Israeli woman to win a noble prize.
PROF. ADA YONATH
Dan Schectman is an Israeli professor of Materials Science at the Technion, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. In 2011 he received a Noble Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals.
PROF. DAN SHECHTMAN
Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist, he is known as a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules. In 2013 he received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
PROF. ARIEH WARSHEL
Michael Levitt is an American-British-Israeli biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University. In 2013 he received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Arieh Warshel and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
PROF. MICHAEL LEVITT
