The New York Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Blavatnik Family Foundation, hosted the annual ceremony for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel on June 4, 2024. The Awards, a collaboration between the Blavatnik Family Foundation, The New York Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, are one of the most significant awards granted to scientists at the early stages of their careers in Israel. Ceremony presenter Tamar Ish-Shalom closed the evening’s festivities with an annual tradition of the Blavatnik Awards in Israel of making a toast to science in Hebrew, “L’Chaim; To Science!”