Two American Jews and a German won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, The New York Jewish Press reported, while one the two Nobel Prize in physics, awarded on Tuesday, is also Jewish.
Police say nearly 1 million mourners converge on city to mourn loss of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yosef; police send hundreds of officers to maintain control ; 200 treated for minor injuries, 8 hospitalized.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who as the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party became a fiery figure in Israeli politics championing the interests of Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin, died here on Monday
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Palestinians must ''recognise Israel as the state of the Jewish people'' in order to achieve real peace.