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Israel Prize
The Israel Prize is the highest award given annually by the State of Israel to Israeli personalities or organizations that have marked the year of an artistic point of view, cultural or scientific. Established in 1953 by Ben-Zion Dinur , Minister of Education, the award is presented at a national ceremony annual Jerusalem the day before the anniversary of the country's independence, Yom Ha'atzmaut.
It is awarded for each of the following:
- Jewish Studies
- Letters
- Science
- Social Sciences
- Sciences
- Art and Culture
Winners
Among the most famous winners:
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1954 and 1958)
- Nehama Leibowitz (1956)
- Gershom Scholem (1958)
- Martin Buber (1958)
- Ovadia Yosef (1970)
- Leah Goldberg (1970)
- Anna Ticho painter (1980)
- David Flusser (1980)
- Yehuda Amichai (1982)
- Aharon Appelfeld (1983)
- Emile Habibi (1992)
- Zubin Mehta (1991)
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1993)
- Robert Aumann (1994)
- AB Yehoshua (1995)
- Amos Oz (1998)
- Moshe Gil (1998)
- Shulamit Aloni (2000)
- Abba Eban (2001)
- Ephraim Kishon (2002)
- Yigal Tumarkin (2004)
- Yisrael Meir Lau (2008)
- Zeev Sternhell (2008)
Controversies
Among the controversial most famous are those on the award in 1993 to Yeshayahu Leibowitz.
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