Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel, a nation that is currently at the center of a major conflict with global repercussions. What might have changed if this brilliant thinker had chosen ...

Twenty-four hours after Chaim Weizman, Israel’s first President, was laid to rest, the enterprising editor of Israel’s evening Maariv, in a signed editorial, proposed as his successor “the ...

His support for the university and for Israel was so deeply appreciated that Einstein was asked to become the country’s president in 1952, but he declined. After Einstein died in 1955 ...

A letter written by physicist Albert Einstein to his sister in which he warned of rising sentiments against Jews in Germany has been sold in an auction in Israel for nearly $40,000. The letter ...

In 1940 Einstein renounced his German citizenship for a second time and became a U.S. citizen. He became a supporter of disarmament and of a Jewish state. In 1952 the young nation of Israel ...