| Year |
Name[1] |
Field |
Comments
|
| 1953
|
Gedaliah Alon
|
Jewish studies
|
Posthumously awarded prize, three years after his death.
First recipient of the prize for Jewish studies.
|
| Haim Hazaz
|
Literature
|
One of first two recipients of the prize for Literature.
|
| Ya'akov Cohen
|
Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1958.
One of first two recipients of the prize for Literature.
|
| Dina Feitelson-Schur
|
Education
|
First female recipient of the Israel Prize.
First recipient of the prize for Education.
|
| Mark Dvorzhetski
|
Social science
|
First recipient of the prize for Social science.
|
| Lipman Heilprin
|
Medical science
|
First recipient of the prize for medicine or Medical science.
|
| Zeev Ben-Zvi
|
Sculpture
|
First recipient of the prize for any of the fine arts.
|
| Shimshon Amitsur
|
Exact sciences
|
One of the first two recipients of the prize for Exact sciences.
|
| Jacob Levitzki
|
Family relationship: Father of recipient Alexander Levitzki (1990, Life sciences).
One of the first two recipients of the prize for Exact sciences.
|
| 1954
|
Moshe Zvi Segal
|
Jewish studies
|
First rabbi to receive the Israel Prize.
|
| Schmuel Hugo Bergmann
|
Humanities
|
Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1974.
First recipient of the prize for the Humanities.
|
| David Shimoni
|
Literature
|
|
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon
|
Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1958.
|
| Arthur Biram
|
Education
|
|
| Gad Tedeschi
|
Jurisprudence
|
First recipient of the prize for Jurisprudence or law.
|
| Franz Ollendorff
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Michael Zohary
|
Life sciences
|
First recipient of the prize for Life sciences.
|
| Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer
|
Agriculture
|
First recipient of the prize for Agriculture.
|
| Ödön Pártos
|
Music
|
First recipient of the prize for Music.
|
| 1955
|
Ephraim Urbach
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Isaac Heinemann
|
|
| Zalman Shneur
|
Literature
|
|
| Yitzhak Lamdan
|
|
| Michael Fekete
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Israel Reichert
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Yaakov Ben-Tor
|
|
| Akiva Vroman
|
|
| Benjamin Shapira
|
Medical science
|
|
| Sara Hestrin-Lerner
|
Family relationship: Sister of recipient Shlomo Hestrin (1957, Exact sciences).
|
| Netanel Hochberg
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Zahara Schatz
|
Painting and Sculpture
|
|
| 1956
|
Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Yigael Yadin
|
|
| Yehezkel Abramsky
|
Rabbinical literature
|
First recipient of the prize for specifically Rabbinical literature.
|
| Gershon Shufman
|
Literature
|
|
| Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
|
Children's literature
|
First recipient of the prize specifically for Children's literature.
|
| Nechama Leibowitz
|
Education
|
|
| Yaakov Talmon
|
Social sciences
|
|
| Avraham HaLevi Frankel
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Manfred Aschner
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Haim Ernst Wertheimer
|
Medicine
|
|
| Hanna Rovina
|
Theatre
|
First recipient of the prize for the Theatre, acting or Stage arts.
|
| 1957
|
Haim Shirman
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Yohanan Levi
|
Humanities
|
Posthumously awarded Prize.
|
| Yaakov Fichman
|
Literature
|
|
| Uri Zvi Grinberg
|
|
| Paltiel Daykan
|
Jurisprudence
|
|
| Siegfried Lehman
|
Education
|
|
| Shlomo Hestrin
|
Exact sciences
|
Family relationship: Brother of recipient Sara Hestrin-Lerner (1955, Medical science).
|
| David Feingold
|
|
| Gad Avigad
|
|
| Saul Adler
|
Medicine
|
|
| Shmuel Horowitz
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Paul Ben-Haim
|
Music
|
|
| Reuvein Margolies
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Eliezer Smoli
|
Children's literature
|
|
| Dov Karmi
|
Architecture
|
Family relationships: Father of recipients Ram Karmi (2002, Architecture) and Ada Karmi-Melamede (2007, Architecture). First recipient of the prize for Architecture.
|
| 1958
|
Yosef Klausner
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Ben-Zion Dinur
|
Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1973.
|
| Gershom Scholem
|
|
| Yehezkel Kaufmann
|
|
| Yitzhak Baer
|
|
| Isaac HaLevi Herzog
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Yehuda Leib Maimon
|
|
| Yosef Zvi HaLevy
|
Family relationship: Grandfather of recipient Abraham Haim Halevy (2002, Agriculture).
|
| Martin Buber
|
Humanities
|
|
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon
|
Literature
|
Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1954.
|
| Isaac Dov Berkowitz
|
|
| Ya'akov Cohen
|
Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1953.
|
| Youth Aliyah
|
Education
|
Organization – one of the first four organizations to receive the Prize.
|
| Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
|
Social sciences
|
|
| Yoel (Giulio) Racah
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Marcus Reiner
|
|
| Leo Picard
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Bernhard Zondek
|
Medicine
|
|
| Selig Suskin
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
|
Painting and Sculpture
|
Organization – one of the first four organizations to receive the Prize.
|
| Habima Theatre
|
Theatre
|
| Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
|
Music
|
| 1959
|
Shlomo Yosef Zevin
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Leo Aryeh Mayer
|
Humanities
|
|
| S. Yizhar (Yizhar Smilansky)
|
Literature
|
|
| Ezra Fleischer
|
|
| Ephraim Katchalski (Ephraim Katzir)
|
Life sciences
|
Family relationship: Brother of recipient Aharon Katzir (1961, Life sciences).
|
| Michael Sela
|
|
| Hillel (Heinz) Oppenheimer
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Joseph Zaritsky
|
Painting
|
|
| Yehoshua Bertonov
|
Theatre
|
Family relationship: Father of recipient Devorah Bertonov (1991, Stage arts).
|
| 1960
|
Abraham Haim Shalit
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Avraham Arnon
|
Education
|
|
| Shabtai Rosenne
|
Jurisprudence
|
|
| Aharon Meskin
|
Theatre
|
|
| Isaac Michaelson
|
Medicine
|
|
| Franz Sondheimer
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| 1961
|
Shlomo Goren
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Yechezkel Kutscher
|
Humanities
|
|
| Yehuda Burla
|
Literature
|
|
| Aharon Katzir
|
Life sciences
|
Family relationship: Brother of recipient Ephraim Katzir (1959, Life sciences).
|
| Ora Kedem
|
|
| Jacob van der Hoeden
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Menachem Avidom
|
Music
|
|
| 1962
|
Hanoch Yelon
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Joseph Bentwich
|
Education
|
|
| Yitzhak Kanav
|
Social sciences
|
|
| Ze'ev Lev
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Zvi Sliternik
|
Medicine
|
|
| Arieh Sharon
|
Architecture
|
|
| 1963
|
Menachem Mendel Kasher
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Nathan Rotenstreich
|
Humanities
|
|
| Eliezer Steinman
|
Literature
|
|
| Avraham Fahn
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Mordechai Ardon
|
Painting
|
|
| 1964
|
Ze'ev Ben-Haim
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Moshe Zilberg
|
Jurisprudence
|
|
| Moshe Rachmilewitz
|
Medicine
|
|
| Meir Margalit
|
Theatre
|
|
| 1965
|
Shlomo Zemach
|
Literature
|
|
| Shlomo Dykman
|
|
| Karl Frankenstein
|
Education
|
|
| Israel Defense Forces
|
Organization – the only organization to receive the Prize during the 1960s.
|
| Judith Shuval
|
Social sciences
|
|
| Amos de-Shalit
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Igal Talmi
|
|
| Shmuel Stoller
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Mordechai Seter
|
Music
|
|
| 1966
|
Shlomo Morag
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Yitzhak Arieli
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Hans Jakob Polotsky
|
Humanities
|
|
| Moshe Rudolf Bloch
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Alfred Mansfeld
|
Architecture
|
|
| Dora Gad
|
|
| 1967
|
Avraham Shlonsky
|
Literature
|
|
| Ernst Simon
|
Education
|
|
| Benjamin Akzin
|
Jurisprudence
|
|
| Aryeh Leo Olitzki
|
Medicine
|
|
| Marcel Janco
|
Painting
|
|
| 1968
|
Ovadia Hedaya
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Moshe Yechiel Epstein
|
[2]
|
| Shmuel Yeivin
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Benjamin Mazar
|
|
| Dov Sadan
|
|
| Shmuel Samborsky
|
Humanities
|
|
| Shlomo Pines
|
|
| Avigdor Hameiri
|
Literature
|
|
| Natan Alterman
|
|
| Yaakov Berman
|
Education
|
|
| Alexander Dushkin
|
|
| Shoshana Persitz
|
|
| David Horowitz
|
Social sciences
|
|
| Shimon Agranat
|
Jurisprudence
|
|
| Emanuel Goldberg
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Ernst David Bergmann
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Chaim Sheba
|
Medicine
|
|
| Hanan Openheimer
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Yitzhak Danziger
|
Sculpture
|
|
| Yosef Milo
|
Theatre
|
|
| Gertrud Kraus
|
Dance
|
First recipient of the prize specifically for dance.
|
| Benjamin Idelson
|
Architecture
|
|
| 1969
|
Yosef Qafih (Kapach)
|
Jewish studies
|
Family relationship: Husband of recipient Bracha Qafih (1999, Special contribution to Society and the State). The first husband and wife to have both received the Israel Prize (followed by Elihu Katz [1989] and Ruth Katz [2012]).
|
| Joshua Prawer
|
Humanities
|
|
| Schneor Lipson
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Shimon Finkel
|
Theatre
|
|
| Yuval Ne'eman
|
Exact sciences
|
Returned the Prize in 1992.
|
| 1970
|
Ovadia Yosef
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Abba Kovner
|
Literature
|
|
| Leah Goldberg
|
posthumously
|
| Don Patinkin
|
Social sciences
|
|
| Josef Tal
|
Music
|
|
| Andre De Vries
|
Medicine
|
|
| 1971
|
Saul Lieberman
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Haim Ormian
|
Education
|
|
| Zeev Tseltner
|
Jurisprudence
|
|
| Itzhak Arnon
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Arie Aroch
|
Painting
|
|
| 1972
|
David Ayalon
|
Humanities
|
|
| Yocheved Bat-Miriam
|
Literature
|
|
| David Ginsburg
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Leo Sachs
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Ya'acov Rechter
|
Architecture
|
|
| Avraham Harzfeld
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
First recipient of the Prize for "Special contribution to Society".
|
| 1973
|
Yehuda Even-Shmuel
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Yad Harav Herzog
|
Rabbinical literature
|
Organization. Awarded in respect of Complete Israeli Talmud Institute project.
|
| Dorothea Krook-Gilead
|
Humanities
|
|
| Shalom Yosef Shapira ("Shin Shalom")
|
Literature
|
|
| Ben-Zion Dinur
|
Education
|
Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1958.
|
| Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt
|
Social sciences
|
|
| Aryeh Dvoretzky
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Heinrich Mendelssohn
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Richard Stein
|
Medicine
|
|
| Haim Halperin
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Reuven Rubin
|
Painting
|
|
| Hanna Maron
|
Theatre
|
|
| Sara Levi-Tanai
|
Dance
|
|
| Aryeh Elhanani
|
Architecture
|
|
| Pinchas Rosen
|
Jurisprudence
|
|
| Shaul Avigur
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' Remembrance Authority
|
Organization. Prize awarded for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities (Pinkas HaKehillot) project. Yad Vashem also awarded the Israel Prize in 2003.
|
| 1974
|
Shraga Abramson
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Raphael David Levine
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Isaac Berenblum
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Yedidia Admon
|
Music
|
|
| Schmuel Hugo Bergmann
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1954.
|
| Yehoshua Aluf
|
Special contribution to Society and the State in Sports
|
First recipient of the prize who was a sportsperson.
|
| 1975
|
Shimon Halkin
|
Literature
|
|
| Arieh Simon
|
Education
|
|
| Yoel Zussman
|
Jurisprudence
|
|
| Aharon Barak
|
|
| Miriam Bernstein-Cohen
|
Theatre
|
|
| Golda Meir
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Helena Kagan
|
Special contribution to Society and the State in community service
|
|
| 1976
|
Eliezer Waldenberg
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Josef Rom
|
Technology and Engineering
|
First recipient of the prize for Engineering or technology.
|
| Gabriel Baer
|
Arabic linguistics
|
One of the first two recipients of the prize for Arabic linguistics.
|
| Ezra Mani
|
| Mordechai (Moti) Kirschenbaum
|
Radio, Television and Cinema
|
|
| Simcha Holzberg
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Ezra Korine
|
|
| Rivka Guber
|
|
| Yakov Maimon
|
|
| 1977
|
Raphael Mahler
|
History of the Jewish people
|
|
| Menahem Stern
|
|
| Nahman Avigad
|
Land of Israel studies
|
First recipient of the prize for the study or Knowledge of the "Land of Israel".
|
| David Amiran
|
Geography
|
First recipient of the prize specifically for geography.
|
| Shmuel Avitzur
|
Cultural research
|
|
| Zvi Avidov
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Jacob Ephrat
|
|
| Elisheva Cohen
|
Design
|
One of first two recipients of the prize specifically for Design.
|
| Yona Fischer
|
Design
|
| Dani Karavan
|
Sculpture
|
|
| Esther Levit
|
Special contribution to work
|
|
| Avraham Yaakov
|
|
| Avraham Klier
|
Special contribution to industry
|
|
| 1978
|
Nachum Guttman
|
Children's literature
|
|
| Anda Pinkerfeld Amir
|
|
| Levin Kipnis
|
|
| Avraham Even-Shoshan
|
Hebrew language
|
|
| Haim Baruch Rosen
|
Linguistics
|
First recipient of the prize specifically for linguistics.
|
| Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman
|
Social sciences
|
|
| Nathan J. Saltz
|
Medicine
|
|
| Gary Bertini
|
Music
|
|
| Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Moshe Zvi Neria
|
|
| 1979
|
Isaiah Tishbi
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Menachem Elon
|
Hebrew law
|
|
| Baruch Ben-Yehuda
|
Education
|
|
| Yitzchak Raphael Halevi Etzion
|
|
| Yokhanan (Hans) Lindner
|
Natural sciences
|
|
| Orna Porat
|
Theatre
|
|
| Raphael Klatchkin
|
Theatre
|
|
| Tal Brody
|
Special contribution to Society and the State in Sports
|
|
| Yosef Yekutieli
|
|
| 1980
|
David Flusser
|
History of the Jewish people
|
|
| Jacob Katz
|
|
| Haim Cohn
|
Jurisprudence
|
|
| Chaim Leib Pekeris
|
Physics
|
First recipient of the prize specifically for physics.
|
| Pinchas Litbinovsky
|
Painting
|
|
| Anna Ticho
|
|
| Yosl Bergner
|
|
| Yad LaBanim (in Petah Tikva)
|
Special contribution to Society and the State in the activity of perpetuating the memory of Israel's (fallen) sons (and daughters)
|
Organization. Award also noted its founder Baruch Oren.
|
| Baruch Oren
|
Noted in the award to Yad LaBanim (in Petah Tikva).
|
| Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
|
Special contribution to Society and the State for the environment
|
Organization. Award also noted Amotz Zahavi, Azaria Alon and Yoav Sagi.
|
| Amotz Zahavi
|
Noted in the award to the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
|
| Azaria Alon[3]
|
| Yoav Sagi
|
| 1981
|
Avraham Sofer-Schreiber
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Joram Lindenstrauss
|
Mathematics
|
One of first two recipients of the prize specifically for mathematics.
|
| Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
|
Mathematics
|
| Meir Jacob Kister
|
Arabic Linguistics and Middle Eastern studies
|
|
| Gurit Kadman
|
culture of Dance
|
|
| Kvutza Degania Alef
|
Special contribution to Society and the State in social
|
Organization
|
| Recha Freier
|
Special contribution to Society and the State in the service of well-being, community and youth
|
|
| 1982
|
Joshua Jortner
|
Chemistry
|
First recipient to receive the prize specifically for chemistry.
|
| David Benvenisti
|
Acquisition of knowledge and love of the Land of Israel
|
|
| Zev Vilnay
|
Acquisition of knowledge and love of the Land of Israel
|
|
| Amir Gilboa
|
Hebrew poetry
|
|
| Yehuda Amichai
|
Hebrew poetry
|
|
| Roberto Bachi
|
Demographics
|
The only recipient to date of the prize for demographics.
|
| Avraham Yaski
|
Architecture
|
|
| Ruth Amiran
|
Land of Israel studies
|
|
| Haim Gvati
|
Special contribution to Society and the State in work and industry
|
|
| 1983
|
Saul Friedlander
|
History
|
One of first two recipients of the prize specifically for history.
|
| Aron Saltman
|
History
|
| Aharon Appelfeld
|
Literature
|
|
| Naomi Shemer
|
Hebrew song (lyrics and melody)
|
|
| Moshe Wilensky
|
Hebrew song (melody)
|
|
| Haim Hefer
|
Hebrew song (lyrics)
|
|
| Zerach Warhaftig
|
Special contribution to Society and the State for the advancement of Hebrew law
|
|
| Shmuel Rodensky
|
Lifetime achievement
|
| 1984
|
Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz
|
Children's literature
|
|
| Moshe (Max) Jammer
|
History of science
|
|
| Aron (Alfred) Bondi
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Shlomo Ravikovitch
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Shmuel Rodansky
|
Theatre
|
|
| Nahal - Noar Halutzi Lohem (Fighting Pioneer Youth)
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
Organization
|
| Development Towns in Israel project
|
| 1985
|
Abraham Sutzkever
|
Yiddish Literature
|
The only recipient to date of the prize specifically for Yiddish Literature.
|
| Joshua Blau
|
Linguistics and Hebrew language
|
|
| Henry E. Neufeld
|
Medicine
|
|
| Baruch Padeh
|
|
| Yad Ben Zvi
|
Middle Eastern Jewish Literature
|
Organization
|
| Israel Television in Arabic
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
| 1986
|
Yeshayahu Avrech
|
Opinion journalism
|
|
| Shalom Rosenfeld
|
|
| Michael Evenari
|
Lifework in desert studies
|
|
| Yoel De Malach
|
|
| Ulpan Akiva
|
Lifework in Education
|
Organization. Prize awarded jointly with Shulamith Katznelson.
|
| Shulamith Katznelson
|
Jointly awarded with Ulpan Akiva.
|
| HaKfar HaYarok
|
Organization. Prize awarded jointly with Gershon Zak
|
| Gershon Zak
|
Jointly awarded with HaKfar HaYarok
|
| Batya Lichansky
|
Lfework in Sculpture (Land of Israel)
|
|
| Yechiel Shemi
|
|
| Yona Sayid
|
Lifetime achievement
|
|
| Eldin Khatukai
|
|
| 1987
|
Alex Bein
|
Zionist historiography
|
The only recipient to date of the prize specifically for Zionist historiography.
|
| Ezra Zion Melamed
|
Biblical interpretation and Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Menahem Yaari
|
Economics
|
First recipient of the prize for economics.
|
| Ovadia Harari
|
Engineering and Technology
|
|
| Miriam Zohar
|
Acting
|
|
| Lea Koenig
|
|
| Makram Khoury
|
First Israeli Arab recipient of the prize
|
| 1988
|
Moshe Goshen-Gottstein
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Adin Steinsaltz
|
|
| Natan Goldblum
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Haim Gouri
|
Hebrew poetry
|
|
| Moshe Shamir
|
Hebrew Literature
|
|
| Sacha (Alexander) Argov
|
Hebrew song
|
|
| Shoshana Damari
|
|
| Arie "Lova" Eliav
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Reuben Hecht
|
|
| Teddy Kollek
|
|
| 1989
|
Shmuel Werses
|
Hebrew Literature
|
|
| Israel Yeivin
|
study of the Hebrew language
|
|
| Haim Harari
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Yakir Aharonov
|
|
| Elihu Katz
|
Social sciences
|
His wife, Ruth Katz, received the Israel Prize in Musicology in 2012.
|
| Wingate Institute
|
Sports
|
Organization. One of the first two recipients of the prize specifically for sports.
|
| Ian Froman
|
Sports
|
One of first two recipients of the prize specifically for sports.
|
| Ya'akov Hazan
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Bethsabee de Rothschild
|
|
| Israel Exploration Society
|
Organization
|
| 1990
|
Meir Weiss
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Nathan Spiegel
|
Humanities
|
|
| Zvi Yavetz
|
|
| Moshe Altbauer
|
|
| Moshe Prywes
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Meir Wilchek
|
|
| Alexander Levitzki
|
Family relationship: Son of recipient Jacob Levitski (1953, Exact sciences).
|
| Yehezkel Streichman
|
Painting
|
|
| Amin Tarif
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Raanan Weitz
|
|
| Israel Polack
|
|
| 1991
|
Haim Beinart
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan
|
Land of Israel studies
|
|
| Moshe Landau
|
Law
|
|
| Daniel Friedmann
|
|
| Elhanan Helpman
|
Economics
|
|
| Shmuel Agmon
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Dov Frohman
|
|
| Devorah Bertonov
|
Stage arts
|
Family relationship: Daughter of recipient Yehoshua Bertonov (1959, Theatre).
|
| Yossi Yadin
|
|
| Miriam Ben-Porat
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Stef Wertheimer
|
|
| Yeshivat Hesder
|
Organization
|
| Zubin Mehta
|
special prize awarded to non-Israeli
|
Special award in recognition of Mehta's devotion to Israel and to the IPO.
|
| 1992
|
Shaul Yisraeli
|
Jewish studies
|
|
| Yehuda Kiel
|
|
| Daniel Sperber
|
|
| Moshe Lissak
|
Social sciences
|
|
| David Navon
|
|
| Reuven Feuerstein
|
|
| David Erlich
|
|
| Yitzhak Wahl
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Emile Habibi
|
Arabic Literature
|
First recipient of the prize for Arabic Literature.
|
| Avoth Yeshurun
|
Hebrew poetry
|
|
| 1993
|
Dan Miron
|
Hebrew Literature
|
|
| Gershon Shaked
|
|
| Moshe Bar-Asher
|
Hebrew language and Jewish languages
|
|
| Gideon Goldenberg
|
Hebrew language and general linguistics
|
|
| Yehoshua Arieli
|
History
|
|
| Hava Lazarus-Yafeh
|
|
| Michael Confino
|
|
| Yehoshafat Harkabi
|
Political science
|
First recipient of the prize specifically for political science.
|
| Hillel Furstenberg
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Shlomo Alexander
|
|
| Jacob Ziv
|
|
| Ram Loevy
|
Communications, Radio and Television
|
|
| Yaacov Farkas (“Ze’ev”)
|
Communications, journalism
|
|
| 1994
|
Moshe Greenberg
|
Bible
|
One of the first two recipients to receive the prize for Biblical studies.
|
| Moshe Weinfeld
|
| Haim Zalman Dimitrovsky
|
Talmud
|
|
| Eliezer Schweid
|
Jewish thought
|
|
| Shneur Zalman Feller
|
Law
|
|
| Robert John (Israel) Aumann
|
Economics
|
|
| Michael Bruno
|
|
| Avram Hershko
|
Biochemistry
|
One of the first two recipients to receive the prize specifically for biochemistry.
|
| Nathan Sharon
|
Family relationship: Brother of recipient Shmuel Shtrikman (2001, physics). One of the first two recipients to receive the prize specifically for biochemistry.
|
| Eliahu Swirski
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Hanoch Avenary [he]
|
Music
|
|
| Yaakov Orland
|
Hebrew song
|
|
| Arie Shapira
|
composition
|
|
| Yad Sarah
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
Organization
|
| Neot Kedumim
|
Organization. Prize awarded jointly with Noga HaReuveni.
|
| Noga HaReuveni
|
Jointly awarded with the staff of Neot Kedumim.
|
| 1995
|
Claire Epstein[4]
|
Archaeology
|
First recipient of the prize for archaeology.
|
| Dov Nir
|
Geography
|
|
| Amos Funkenstein
|
Jewish history
|
|
| Yehuda Amir
|
Psychology
|
First recipient of the prize specifically for psychology.
|
| Rina Shapira
|
Education
|
|
| Israel Dostrovsky
|
Exact sciences
|
|
| Michael O. Rabin
|
Computer sciences
|
First recipient of the prize for computer sciences.
|
| Nathan Zach
|
Hebrew poetry
|
|
| A. B. Yehoshua (Avraham B. Yehoshua)
|
Hebrew Literature
|
|
| Lea Nikel
|
Painting
|
|
| Menashe Kadishman
|
Sculpture
|
|
| David Resnick
|
Architecture
|
|
| Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Ada Sereni
|
|
| 1996
|
Yehuda Ratzaby
|
Jewish languages
|
|
| Chone Shmeruk
|
|
| Shimon Sandbank
|
Translation of Literature and poems to Hebrew
|
First recipient of the prize specifically for translation.
|
| Shlomo Avineri
|
Political science
|
|
| Moshe Barash
|
History of art
|
First recipient of the prize specifically for history of art.
|
| Moshe Piamenta
|
Middle Eastern studies
|
|
| Meir Sternberg
|
general Literature
|
|
| Ilan Chet
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Yehezkel Stein
|
Medicine
|
|
| Nisim Aloni
|
Stage arts – dramatics
|
|
| Moshe Efrati
|
Stage arts – dance
|
|
| Arieh Navon
|
Stage arts – theatrical scenery
|
|
| Marcel-Jacques Dubois
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Meir Shamgar
|
|
| 1997
|
Yaakov Sussmann
|
Talmudic studies
|
|
| Joseph Dan
|
Jewish thought
|
|
| Shemaryahu Talmon
|
Biblical studies
|
|
| Yehoshua Bacharach
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Hayim David HaLevi
|
Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Izhak Englard
|
Law
|
|
| Yitzhak Zamir
|
Law
|
|
| Ben-Zion Orgad
|
Music
|
|
| Abel Ehrlich
|
|
| Andre Hajdu
|
|
| Haim Yavin
|
Communications
|
One of the first two recipients of the prize for communications.
|
| David Rubinger
|
| Uzia Galil
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Israel Tal
|
|
| Avraham Elimelech Firer
|
|
| 1998
|
Yehuda Bauer
|
History of the Jewish people
|
|
| Moshe Gil
|
Land of Israel
|
|
| Trude Dothan
|
Archaeology
|
|
| Yona Rosenfeld
|
Social work
|
|
| Arye Levy
|
Education
|
|
| Emanuel Marx
|
Sociology
|
|
| Yehudit Birk
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Rami Rahamimoff
|
Medical science
|
|
| Saharon Shelah
|
Mathematics
|
|
| Dan Shechtman
|
Physics
|
|
| Dahlia Ravikovitch
|
original Poetry
|
|
| Amos Oz
|
Literature
|
|
| Dan Tsur
|
Architecture
|
Jointly awarded with Lipa Yahalom.
|
| Lipa Yahalom
|
Jointly awarded with Dan Tsur.
|
| Dan Reisinger
|
Design
|
|
| Hassia Levy-Agron
|
Stage arts
|
|
| Yehudit Arnon
|
|
| Yossi Banai
|
|
| Yafa Yarkoni
|
Hebrew song
|
|
| Ehud Manor
|
|
| Sara Stern-Katan
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Shlomo Hillel
|
|
| Haim Yisraeli
|
|
| 1999
|
Moshe Idel
|
Jewish thought
|
|
| Aaron Mirski
|
Hebrew Literature
|
|
| Menahem Zevi Kaddari
|
Hebrew language
|
|
| Menachem Banitt
|
Jewish languages
|
|
| Mordechai Breuer
|
original Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Avraham Steinberg
|
original Rabbinical literature
|
|
| Myriam Yardeni
|
General history
|
|
| Shmuel Moreh
|
Middle Eastern studies
|
|
| Bezalel Narkiss
|
History of art
|
|
| Yehoshua Ben-Arieh
|
Geography
|
|
| Arie Shachar
|
|
| Michel Revel
|
Medicine
|
|
| Yigal Cohen
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Haim (Howard) Cedar
|
Biology
|
First recipient to receive the prize specifically for biology.
|
| Menahem Golan
|
Cinema
|
One of the first two recipients of the prize for Cinema.
|
| David Perlov
|
| Yehoshua Rozin
|
Sports
|
|
| Esther Roth-Shahamorov
|
|
| Rebecca Bergman
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Jeshajahu Weinberg
|
|
| Bracha Qafih (Kapach)
|
Family relationship: Wife of recipient Yosef Qafih (1969, Jewish studies). The only husband and wife to have both received the Israel Prize.
|
| 2000
|
Menahem Haran
|
Biblical studies
|
|
| Avraham Goldberg
|
Talmudic studies
|
|
| Yonah Frenkel
|
|
| Hillel M. Daleski
|
study of Literature
|
|
| Harel Fisch
|
|
| Gad Ben Ami Tsarfati
|
Linguistics
|
|
| Shaul Shaked
|
|
| Yirmiyahu Yovel
|
Philosophy
|
|
| Asa Kasher
|
Philosophy
|
|
| Raphael Mechoulam
|
Chemistry
|
|
| Yosef Zinger
|
Engineering and Technology
|
|
| Amir Pnueli
|
Computer sciences
|
|
| Amalia Kahana-Carmon
|
original Hebrew Literature
|
|
| Meir Wieseltier
|
Literature and Poetry
|
|
| Moshe Kupferman
|
Painting
|
|
| Michael Gross
|
Painting and Sculpture
|
|
| Micha Bar-Am
|
Photography
|
|
| Shulamit Aloni
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Aryeh Karol
|
|
| Hagashash Hachiver
|
Members comprise Gavriel (Gavri) Banai, Yeshayahu (Shaike) Levi and Yisrael (Poli) Poliakov.
|
| Gavriel (Gavri) Banai
|
Awarded as a member of Hagashash Hachiver.
|
| Yeshayahu (Shaike) Levi
|
| Yisrael (Poli) Poliakov
|
| 2001
|
Aviezer Ravitzky
|
Jewish thought
|
|
| Gavriel Salomon
|
Education
|
|
| Ya'akov Rand
|
|
| Ruth Ben Yisrael
|
Law
|
|
| Yehoshua Weissman
|
|
| Marcel Elyakim
|
Medicine
|
|
| Ruth Arnon
|
|
| Beracha Ramon
|
|
| Yoseph Imry
|
Physics
|
|
| Shmuel Shtrikman
|
Family relationship: Brother of recipient Nathan Sharon (1994, biochemistry).
|
| Zvi Avni
|
Music
|
|
| Yehezkel Braun
|
|
| Herzl Shmueli
|
|
| Baruch Hagai
|
Sports
|
|
| Abba Eban
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Mordechai Ben Porat
|
|
| Yitzhak Shamir
|
|
| 2002
|
Asher Koriat
|
Psychology
|
|
| Moshe Brawer
|
Geography
|
|
| Menashe Harel
|
Knowledge of the Land of Israel
|
|
| Shmuel Safrai
|
|
| Avraham Biran
|
Archaeology
|
|
| Jacob A. Frenkel
|
Economics
|
|
| Ariel Rubinstein
|
|
| Abraham Haim Halevy
|
Agriculture
|
Family relationship: Grandson of recipient Yosef Zvi HaLevy (1958, Rabbinical literature).
|
| Itamar Willner
|
Chemistry
|
|
| Ada Yonath
|
|
| Ram Karmi
|
Architecture
|
Family relationships: Son of recipient Dov Karmi (1957, Architecture) and brother of recipient Ada Karmi-Melamede (2007, Architecture).
|
| David Tartakover
|
Design
|
|
| Dov Yudovsky
|
Media
|
|
| Nahum Rakover
|
Jewish thought
|
|
| Eli Hurvitz
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Ephraim Kishon
|
|
| Jewish National Fund
|
Organization
|
| 2003
|
Israel Ta-Shma
|
Talmud studies
|
|
| Avraham Grossman
|
Jewish history
|
|
| Shulamit Shahar
|
General history
|
|
| Bilha Manheim
|
Sociology
|
|
| Charles S. (Yehoshayahu) Liebman
|
Government studies
|
|
| Menahem Amir
|
Criminology
|
One of the first two recipients of the prize for criminology.
|
| Shlomo Giora Shoham
|
| Aaron Ciechanover
|
Biology
|
|
| Avinoam Libai
|
Engineering
|
|
| Zvi Ben-Avraham
|
Earth sciences
|
|
| Yosef Bar Yosef
|
Theatre
|
|
| Zaharira Harifai
|
|
| Yehudit Hendel
|
Literature
|
|
| Aharon Megged
|
|
| Aharon Amir
|
Translation
|
|
| Geula Cohen
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Meir Amit
|
|
| Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
|
Organization. Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1973, for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities (Pinkas HaKehillot) project.
|
| 2004
|
Sarah Yefet
|
Biblical studies
|
|
| Menahem Brinker
|
Literature
|
|
| Dov Noy
|
|
| Avraham Doron
|
Social work
|
|
| Ziva Amishai-Maisels
|
History of art
|
|
| Aharon Razin
|
Biochemistry
|
|
| Joseph Bernstein
|
Mathematics
|
|
| David Harel
|
Computer sciences
|
|
| Ester Samuel-Cahn
|
Statistics
|
|
| Yigal Tumarkin
|
Sculpture
|
|
| Gila Almagor-Agmon
|
Cinema
|
|
| Gil Aldema
|
Hebrew song
|
|
| Yehoram Gaon
|
|
| Yitzchak Dovid Grossman
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Lia van Leer
|
|
| Moshe Schnitzer
|
|
| 2005
|
Ben-Ami Sharpstein
|
Philosophy
|
|
| Miriam Erez
|
Management
|
|
| Yehezkel Dror
|
|
| Aharon Dotan
|
Hebrew language and Linguistics
|
|
| Olga Kapeliuk
|
Linguistics
|
|
| Ya'akov Landau
|
Middle Eastern studies
|
|
| Sasson Somekh
|
|
| Rena Zeitzov
|
Medicine
|
|
| Shaul Feldman
|
|
| Jacob Bekenstein
|
Physics
|
|
| Alex Livak
|
Photography
|
|
| Ohad Naharin
|
Dance
|
|
| Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach
|
Literature
|
|
| Israel Pinkas
|
Poetry
|
|
| Shabtai Teveth
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Yisrael Meir Lau
|
|
| Cameri Theatre
|
Organization
|
| 2006
|
Gerald Blidstein
|
Jewish philosophy
|
|
| Haim Adler
|
Education
|
|
| Miriam Ben-Peretz
|
|
| Ruth Lapidot
|
Law
|
|
| Amnon Rubinstein
|
|
| Nahum Keidar
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Zvi Rappoport
|
Chemistry
|
|
| Pnina Salzman
|
Music
|
|
| Mendi Rodan
|
Music
|
|
| Ya'akov Hodorov
|
Sports
|
|
| Ralph Klein
|
|
| Dvora Omer
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Al Schwimmer
|
|
| Israeli Andalusian Orchestra
|
Organization
|
| 2007
|
Elisha Efrat
|
Geography
|
|
| Amnon Cohen
|
Knowledge of the Land of Israel
|
|
| Shalom H. Schwartz
|
Psychology
|
|
| Nissan Liviatan
|
Economics
|
|
| Zvi Selinger
|
Biology
|
|
| Zvi Hashin
|
Engineering
|
|
| Yaacov Yaar
|
Architecture
|
|
| Ada Karmi-Melamede
|
Family relationships: Daughter of recipient Dov Karmi (1957, Architecture) and sister of recipient Ram Karmi (2002, Architecture).
|
| Yarom Vardimon
|
Design
|
|
| Nahum Barnea
|
Communications
|
|
| The Responsa Project (Project Hashut)
|
Rabbinical literature
|
Organization
|
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
| The Gevatron
|
Folk singers group
|
| Dov Lautman
|
|
| Alice Shalvi
|
|
| 2008
|
David Weiss Halivni
|
Talmudic studies
|
|
| Anita Shapira
|
History
|
|
| Benjamin Isaac
|
|
| Sammy Smooha
|
Sociology
|
|
| Zeev Sternhell
|
Political science
|
|
| Moshe Oren
|
Biochemistry
|
|
| Noga Alon
|
Mathematics
|
|
| Adi Shamir
|
Computer sciences
|
|
| Pinchas Cohen Gan
|
Painting
|
|
| Rene Yerushalmi
|
Theatre
|
|
| Nissan Nativ
|
Posthumous receipt of Prize.[5]
|
| Ida Fink
|
Literature
|
|
| Tuvya Ruebner
|
Hebrew poetry
|
|
| Nili Mirsky
|
Hebrew translation
|
|
| Jewish Agency
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
Organization
|
| Manufacturers Association of Israel
|
| Youth Movements Council
|
| Ezer Mizion
|
| Perach
|
| Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
|
Organization. Joint award to three Israeli women's organization, WIZO, Na'amat and Emunah.
|
| Na'amat
|
| Emunah (National Religious Women's Movement)
|
| 2009
|
Emanuel Tov
|
Biblical studies
|
|
| Israel Levin
|
Literature
|
|
| Reuven Tsur
|
|
| Zahava Solomon
|
Social work
|
|
| Mordechai Rotenberg
|
|
| Amihai Mazar
|
Archaeology
|
|
| Zvi Laron
|
Medicine
|
|
| Itamar Procaccia
|
Physics
|
|
| Micha Ullman
|
Sculpture
|
|
| Yehuda (Judd) Neeman
|
Cinema
|
|
| Nachum (Nahtche) Heiman
|
Hebrew song
|
|
| Dov Seltzer
|
|
| Israel Democracy Institute
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
Organization
|
| Ruth Rasnic
|
|
| Mordechai Shani
|
|
| 2010
|
Avishai Margalit
|
Philosophy
|
|
| Hanoch Bartov
|
Literature
|
|
| Aryeh Sivan
|
Poetry
|
|
| Abraham Tal
|
Hebrew Linguistics
|
|
| Arye Levin
|
General Linguistics
|
|
| Moshe Adad
|
criminology
|
|
| Yair Aharoni
|
administrative science
|
|
| Abraham Nitzan
|
Chemistry
|
|
| Yehoshua Kolodny
|
Earth sciences
|
|
| Jonathan Gressel
|
Agriculture
|
|
| Peter Mirom
|
Photography
|
|
| Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater
|
Dance
|
Organization
|
| Aharon Yadlin
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Yardena Cohen
|
|
| Kamal Mansour
|
|
| ILAN - Israel Foundation for Handicapped Children
|
Organization
|
| 2011
|
Michael Schwarz
|
Jewish thought
|
|
| Yosef Shiloh
|
Life sciences
|
|
| Ruth Gavison
|
Legal research
|
|
| Pnina Klein
|
Education
|
|
| David Harari
|
Engineering
|
|
| Ya'acov Dorchin
|
Visual arts
|
|
| Noam Sheriff
|
The study of music
|
Members of the selection Committee – Betty Olivero who was selected by N. Sheriff for the E.M.E.T. Prize in 2015
|
| Shimon Mizrahi
|
Sports
|
|
| Hulda Gurevitch
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Eli Alaluf
|
|
| 2012
|
David Kazhdan
|
Mathematics and Computer sciences
|
|
| Shlomo Bentin
|
Psychology
|
|
| David Milstein
|
Chemistry and Physics
|
|
| Ruth Katz
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
| Dalia Cohen
|
|
| Azaria Alon
|
|
| Haim Drukman[6]
|
Education
|
|
| Yoav Benjamini
|
Statistics
|
|
| Nathan Shaham
|
Hebrew Literature and poetry
|
|
| Ya'akov Ahimeir
|
communications
|
|
| 2013
|
Gideon Dagan
|
earth science
|
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| Nathan Nelson
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Life Sciences
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| Yosef Kaplan
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History of the Jewish people
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| Chava Turniansky
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Jewish language and Literature
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| Adam Mazor
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Architecture
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| Yoram Bilu
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Sociology and Anthropology
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| Nola Chelton
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Stage arts
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| Eliyahu Hacohen
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Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
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| Ron Nachman
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| 2014
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Shamma Friedman
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Talmud
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| Mordechai Segev
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Physics and Chemistry
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| Yaacov Katan
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Plant pathology and entomology
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| Irad Malkin
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History
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| Aharon Lichtenstein
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Jewish Literature
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| Marta Weinstock-Rosin
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Medicine
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| Michal Na'aman
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Visual arts
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| Haim Levy
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Management
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| Avinoam Naor
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Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
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| Adina Bar-Shalom
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| 2015
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Chaim Topol
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| Esther Herlitz
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| David Gurfinkel
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Cinema
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| Erez Biton
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Hebrew Literature and poetry
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| Shimon Ullman
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Mathematics and Computer science
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| David Weisburd
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Social work and Criminology
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| Harold Zvi Schiffrin
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East Asian studies
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| Shmuel Ahituv
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Biblical studies
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| Zelig Eshhar
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Life sciences
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| 2016
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Meir Lahav
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Chemistry & Physics
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| Leslie Leiserowitz
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| Edit Doron
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Linguistics
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| Nurit Hirsh
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Hebrew song
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| Eli Sadan
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Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
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| Doron Almog
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| Yohanan Friedmann
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Near Eastern studies
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| Eviatar Nevo
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Life sciences
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| David Shulman
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Religious studies and Philosophy
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| Hadas Efrat
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Stage arts
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| Yossi Katz
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Geography, Archeology, and Land of Israel studies
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| 2017
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Ágnes Keleti
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Sports
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| Tzvika Levy
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
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| David Beeri
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| Yosef Yarden
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Life sciences
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| Arie Vardi
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Music
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| Malka Margalit
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Education
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| Yehuda Liebes
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Jewish thought
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| Uri Shaked
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Engineering
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| 2018
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Ron Ben-Yishai
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Journalism
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| David Grossman
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Literature
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| Shlomo Havlin
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Physics
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| Sergiu Hart
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Economics
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| Alexander Lubotzky
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Mathematics and Computer Science
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| Miriam Peretz
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Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
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| 2019
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Amnon Ben-Tor
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Archaeology
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| Naomi Polani
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Theater and Dance
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| Dan Yakir[7]
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Environmental sciences, geology and atmospheric sciences
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| 2020
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Joseph Klafter
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Chemistry and Physics
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| Avishay Braverman
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Lifetime Achievement
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| 2021
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Nitza Ben-Dov
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Hebrew Literature
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| Michal Bat-Adam
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Film Art
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| Oded Goldreich
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Mathematics & Computer Sciences
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Prize blocked by politicians, Supreme Court decided in favour
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| Eli Keshet
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Life Sciences
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| Ben-Ami Shillony
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Far Eastern Studies
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| Nurit Zarchi
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Literature
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| Joseph Ciechanover
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Special contribution to Society and the State
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|
| 2022
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Moussa B.H. Youdim
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Life Sciences
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| Yemima Ben-Menahem
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Philosophy Research
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| Ruth A. Berman
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Linguistic Research
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| Avihu Medina
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Israeli Music
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| Yoram Palti
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Entrepreneurship
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| Oded Kotler
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Theatre
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| Shimon Shamir
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Middle Eastern Studies
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| Izi Sheratzki
|
Special contribution to Society and the State
|
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| Joshua Zak
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Physics
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| Maryuma Klein
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Special contribution to Society and the State
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| 2023
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Amnon Shashua
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Special contribution to Society and the State
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| Yoram Dinstein
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Legal research
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| Emanuel Peled
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Chemistry and Chemical engineering
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| Amal Nasser el-Din
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Special contribution to Society and the State
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| Rachel Haber
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Special contribution to Society and the State
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| Hagai Bergman
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Life sciences
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