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Nobel Prize winner Robert Aumann commented on the issue of the hostages at the Arutz Sheva - Israel National News Jerusalem Conference. “Consider the ultimatum game,” Professor Aumann began, referencing a known economics problem. “Two players will get ten thousand shekels if they can agree on how to divide it. One suggests splitting it evenly. The other The other insists on taking at least nine thousand shekels. The first player will realize that even though such a demand is irrational, he will still profit by agreeing, and so the rational first player will agree to the terms set by the...

Professor Yisrael (Robert) Aumann reacted Saturday night to the news that Haifa University’s Executive Committee has decided not to award him an honorary doctorate due to his right-wing political views. Aumann is a Nobel Prize winner in the field of economics. Speaking to Channel 1’s program Roim Olam, Aumann joked : “I’ve prayed and aspired to getting an honorary doctorate from Haifa University for my whole life.” “I’m very disappointed,” he added, sarcastically. Aumann linked the issue to academic boycotts against Israeli schools. “I have to say that we create this issue of boycotts ourselves,” he said. Former Member of...

Professor Israel Aumann says Israel ‘in deep trouble,’ adding that ‘perhaps only national religious Jews, Bnei Akiva yeshivas can salvage situation. ‘I fear the Satmars were right. As God did not build a home here, the Zionists’ work here is for nothing,’ he adds Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics, Professor Israel Aumann said Tuesday that the Satmars, an anti-Zionist Hasidic sect, were right in saying that an independent Jewish state should not be established before the messiah’s arrival. Speaking at a Bnei Akiva conference in Ramat-Gan, Aumann reiterated his criticism of the government’s treatment Gush Katif evacuees, referring to it...

In the last few months I was asked many times if game theory can shed some light on the Middle East in general and more so specifically regarding the Israeli-Arab conflict. Firstly I must make one remark: "The treatment of the refugees (of the Disengagement Plan) is a national disgrace. Many of the refugees are still in hotels, even now, almost six months after the evacuation and without minimal conditions. Many of them have yet to arrive at some sort of final living arrangements and even temporary yet acceptable living arrangements. There is no work, the children are desperate. There...

Nobel laureate: Israel asking for bloodshed Top game theorist says headlong rush for 'peace' lessens the chances By Ryan Jones January 22nd, 2006 Rushing to surrender territory to Israel's enemies in an effort to increase security and foster peace is a bankrupt policy that will only lead to further bloodshed. So said Nobel Laureate Professor Israel Aumann Saturday evening during a speech to participants in the Herzliya Conference on the folly of Israel's “disengagement” from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria. Aumann explained the problem is most Israelis, unlike their Islamic foes, have become convinced they are out of time....

Prof. Aumann: "National Disgrace - and the Press is Silent" 15:43 Jan 22, '06 / 22 Tevet 5766 By Hillel Fendel Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Aumann at the Herzliya Conference: "The treatment of the expellees is a national disgrace, and everyone is silent... Israel's mad rush for peace has the opposite effect." Prof. Yisrael Aumann of Hebrew University won this past year's Nobel Prize in Economics, for "enhancing our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." He spoke Saturday night at the opening session of the prestigious Sixth Annual Herzliya Conference. Many of the thousands of people expelled from...

Professor Robert J. Aumann, who earned the 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics, strongly criticized the state's treatment of Jewish settlers who were evicted from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank as part of the disengagement plan in remarks before the Herzliya Conference on Saturday. In his speech, Aumann argued that the settlers, whom he insisted on referring to as "deportees", have been neglected and abandoned by the state and its institutions. Aumann said that the state has been criminally negligent in the manner in which it cares for the settlers' well-being, most of whom have yet to find permanent...

After dashing to Stockholm's Concert Hall with 27 members of his immediate family from the hotel where they stayed over Shabbat, Hebrew University mathematics Prof. Robert J. (Yisrael) Aumann accepted the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics from King Karl XVI Gustaf, along with Thomas C. Schelling, a retired professor from the University of Maryland. The prize was awarded for their work done in the 1960s and 70's "that helped defense analysts use models to map out options available to an adversary and thus predict what the opponent might do in a confrontation," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. It...

Israeli academia is usually as leftist, if not more so, as American academia. So, the Israeli Academic Left was ecstatic when it was announced that an Israeli economist (who grew up in the USA), Professor Robert J. Aumann from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, had been co-awarded the Nobel Prize this year in economics. (A previous Nobel winner in economics, Daniel Kahneman, grew up in Israel, but did his work mainly after moving to the US.) While Israelis have gotten Nobel Prizes before, most were given to politicians as rewards for Israeli political capitulations and appeasement of Arabs, and one...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Israeli and U.S. citizen Robert J. Aumann and American Thomas C. Schelling have won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The pair won the prize "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday. Through their work, Aumann, 75, and Schelling, 84, have helped to "explain economic conflicts such as price wars and trade wars, as well as why some communities are more successful than others in managing common-pool resources," the academy said in its citation. "The repeated-games approach clarifies the raison d'etre of...