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.

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

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

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


Hubble telescope captures galaxy clusters merging

Gravitational lensing has the practical effect of a magnifying glass, microscope, or binoculars, and enables scientists to observe celestial bodies that would otherwise be too distant to discern.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

Einstein’s letter rebuking creationism up for auction

The letter is valued to be worth $125,000 USD (approximately 451,500 NIS). Other letters from the great scientist have fetched $3 million USD at auction.

Albert Einstein in 1947

At the heart of the film ‘Oppenheimer’ is a clash between real-life Jews 

The animosity between Strauss and Oppenheimer had probably several different dimensions.

 The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952, by a member of the United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain.

Scientists discover that universe is awash in gravitational waves

The discovery was announced seven years after researchers announced that they had first detected the existence of gravitational waves generated by two distant black holes

 Artistic rendition of two short gamma-ray bursts in a collapsing star.

Jerusalem's Hebrew University to showcase Albert Einstein to the world

Exactly a century after the great scientist visited the Hebrew University, the cornerstone is laid for a museum that will shine a spotlight on Albert Einstein.

 THE CORNERSTONE is laid for the Albert Einstein museum (from L): Maria and Jose Mugrabi, Yishai Fraenkel, Hebrew University vice president and director-general; and Hebrew University president Prof. Asher Cohen.

It’s all relative: New Einstein museum will take visitors back in time

Titled the Einstein House, the new museum would deepen the scientist’s longstanding ties with the university.

 THE FUTURE Einstein House.

Israel recruits the Einstein name to become a 'popular brand' worldwide

SCIENCE AFFAIRS: After years of effort, an Albert Einstein museum will finally be built in Jerusalem.

 THE FUTURE Einstein House.

In ‘Oppenheimer’ trailer, the atomic bomb is born – and Einstein weeps

Oppenheimer and his team of scientists tested the weapon there before it was eventually dropped on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 Albert Einstein (Middle) is seen standing between Yiddish poet Itzik Feffer and Russian Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels in 1943. Feffer would be killed in the Night of the Murdered Poets, while Mikhoels was killed in what may have been an assassination ordered by Joseph Stalin.

Detailed dark matter map provides further support for Einstein's theory of general relativity

Astronomers have created the most detailed map of dark matter distribution.

 One of the Unit Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is producing artificial stars in the skies above the Atacama Desert, above the Milky Way.

Astrophysicist claims to be close to building a time machine

Professor Mallet spent his life researching time travel in order to be able to go back and visit his dead father - now he claims he invented a time machine.

 A wormhole (illustrative).