Ada Yonat refused the request of Ofakim Municipality to name a street after her: "Streets are named after dead people"
The municipality honored the Nobel Prize winner's request and instead will ask to name the street designated for Yunat after Albert Einstein.
"Perhaps honor is not the most important reason for me, missing names?", she said
Yanir Yagna
09/29/2022
Thursday, September 29, 2022, 3:29 p.m. Updated: 4:58 p.m.
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Ada Yonat (Photo: Maged Gozni)
Ofakim Municipality asked to name one of the streets in the new industrial park in the city after the Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonat - and the latter refused.
The move came as part of the municipality's decision to name the new streets in the city after Nobel Prize winners.
The Ofakim municipality honored Yonat's request, and in her place they will ask to name the street after the scientist Albert Einstein.
According to city officials, the reason for the refusal is that Professor Yonat believed that streets should not be named after characters who are among the living.
"I refused all over the country because I think streets are named after people who are no longer alive," Yonat told Walla.
"Perhaps honor is not the most important reason for me, missing names?".
83-year-old Yonat is an Israeli biochemist, a full professor at the Faculty of Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science, specializing in protein crystallography.
Her research deals with the structure and function of the ribosome.
In 2009, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Venkataraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz, "for their research that contributed to the understanding of the structure and function of the ribosome".
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