Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Lord Jonathan Sacks, Barbra Streisand are also among the nominees for the 'Jewish Nobel.'

The Genesis Prize Foundation announced it will provide a $1 million grant to support Beresheet 0.2, the second Israeli spacecraft to attempt a moon landing, the organization said Thursday. The lunar landing for Beresheet (the Hebrew word for “Genesis”, did not go as planned. The spacecraft developed by Israeli non-profit SpaceIL crashed into the moon’s […]

December 21, 2017 | Israeli-South African philanthropist and entrepreneur Morris Kahn announced this week that he was donating an additional $1 million to the Genesis Prize, dubbed the “Jewish Nobel,” awarded to US-Israeli actress Natalie Portman for 2018. The Genesis Prize, established in 2012, recognizes individuals “who have attained excellence and international renown in their […]