Minister of Education, Gideon Saar, announced Wednesday the winner of the Israel Prize in Agricultural Research – Prof. Jonathan Gressel.

The Prize Committee noted that Prof. Jonathan Gressel of the Department of Plant Sciences of the Weizmann Institute, is an internationally renowned expert on biotechnology of plants. He has carried out breakthrough studies in the molecular mechanisms that allow the extermination of weeds in agriculture that have been applied both in Israel and abroad.