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375:, decided to share his award with Goldreich in protest of the government's decision to not award the 2021 prize for Professor Goldreich. In August 2021 the Supreme Court wrote, "we found appropriate at this stage to accept the position of the Attorney General that the Education Minister should be allowed to examine new information that he received only two days ago regarding a petition that Professor Goldreich signed that was publicized around two weeks ago." This meant that the matter should be resolved by the new Minister of Education 40: 334:
research contributions, advanced these fields through many survey articles and several first class textbooks. He has contributed eminent results, new basic definitions and pointed to new directions of research. Goldreich has been one of the driving forces for the theoretical computer science community for three decades."
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to ensure that Goldreich will win the prize. On 8 April 2021 Israel's Supreme Court of Justice ruled in favor of Gallant's petition so that Goldreich could receive the prize that year, giving Gallant a month to further examine the issue. On 11 April 2021, a 2004 Israeli Prize winner, Professor
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in 2017 for "fundamental and lasting contributions to theoretical computer science in many areas including cryptography, randomness, probabilistically checkable proofs, inapproximability, property testing as well as complexity theory in general. Goldreich has, in addition to his outstanding
379:. In November 2021, Shasha-Biton announced that she would block Goldreich from receiving the prize. In December 2021 Attorney General Mandelblit told the High Court that Prof. Goldreich should be given the Israel Prize in Mathematics, despite Education Minister Shasha-Biton's decision. 354:) against Israel. One of the reasons for the decision was a letter signed by Goldreich calling German parliament not to equate BDS with anti-semitism. However, according to Goldreich, he did not support BDS but instead signed a petition calling for the halt of 582:
Oded Goldreich, Silvio Micali, and Avi Wigderson. How to Play any Mental Game or a Completeness Theorem for Protocols with Honest Majority. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, pages 218-229, ACM,
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editorial said that Shasha-Biton's decision meant "the most prestigious prize awarded by Israel will not be the mark of scientific excellence but of loyalty to the government". In March 2022 the
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Members object to Education Minister Gallant's efforts to prevent award from going to Oded Goldreich over his alleged BDS support
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and O. Goldreich. Unbiased Bits From Sources of Weak Randomness and Probabilistic Communication Complexity.
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vetoed his selection over Goldreich's alleged support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (
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Goldreich O., Sudan M. (2006). "Locally Testable Codes and PCPs of Almost-Linear Length".
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wrote that Goldreich's "alling for the boycott of professional colleagues
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which comes in two volumes (volume 1 in 2001 and volume 2 in 2004),
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ruled that the 2021 prize had to be awarded to Prof. Goldreich.
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Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness
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Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness
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International Association for Cryptologic Research fellows
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of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the
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by Oded Goldreich and 8 other books by various authors"
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Goldreich has also authored several books including:
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Oberwolfach
Tel Aviv
Israel
Technion
Weizmann Institute
Zero-knowledge proof
Dana Ron
Knuth Prize
Cryptography
Doctoral advisor
Shimon Even
Boaz Barak
Ran Canetti
Yehuda Lindell
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Hebrew
professor
computer science
mathematics
Weizmann Institute
theory of computation
randomness
cryptography
computational complexity theory
Knuth Prize
Israel Prize
Technion
Shimon Even
pseudorandomness

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