What do all these Israelis have in common?

Prof. Daniel Kahneman (2002), Prof. Aaron Ciechanover & Prof. Avram Hershko (2004), Prof. Robert Aumann (2005), Prof. Ada Yonath (2009), and this year (2011) Prof. Dan Shechtman:

In the past decade, they all won a Nobel Prize in various fields of research.

Israel finds great pride in the acknowledged achievements of each and every one of them.