Education Minister Yoav Kisch announced that Dr. Mira Bar-Matthews is the Israel Prize laureate in the field of Geology, Earth Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences for the year 2024. This was reported by the Ministry of Education, which noted that "the Prize Committee stated in its reasoning that the prize is awarded to Dr. Bar-Matthews for her extraordinary, groundbreaking and globally influential scientific contribution in the field of paleoclimate research from caves, and for her many years of contribution to science and society in Israel. Her research has positioned the Eastern Mediterranean as a natural laboratory for understanding the relationship between climate, environment and humans, and has become an international methodological standard."