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
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Jewish studies
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Nathan Spiegel
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Humanities
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Zvi Yavetz
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Moshe Altbauer
|
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Moshe Prywes
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Life sciences
|
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Meir Wilchek
|
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Alexander Levitzki
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Family relationship: Son of recipient Jacob Levitski (1953, Exact sciences).
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Yehezkel Streichman
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Painting
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Amin Tarif
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Special contribution to Society and the State
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Raanan Weitz
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Israel Polack
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1991
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Haim Beinart
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Jewish studies
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Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan
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Land of Israel studies
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Moshe Landau
|
Law
|
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Daniel Friedmann
|
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Elhanan Helpman
|
Economics
|
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Shmuel Agmon
|
Exact sciences
|
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Dov Frohman
|
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Devorah Bertonov
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Stage arts
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Family relationship: Daughter of recipient Yehoshua Bertonov (1959, Theatre).
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Yossi Yadin
|
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Miriam Ben-Porat
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Special contribution to Society and the State
|
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Stef Wertheimer
|
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Yeshivat Hesder
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Organization
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Zubin Mehta
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special prize awarded to non-Israeli
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Special award in recognition of Mehta's devotion to Israel and to the IPO.
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1992
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Shaul Yisraeli
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Jewish studies
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Yehuda Kiel
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Daniel Sperber
|
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Moshe Lissak
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Social sciences
|
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David Navon
|
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Reuven Feuerstein
|
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David Erlich
|
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Yitzhak Wahl
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Life sciences
|
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Emile Habibi
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Arabic Literature
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First recipient of the prize for Arabic Literature.
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Avoth Yeshurun
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Hebrew poetry
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1993
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Dan Miron
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Hebrew Literature
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Gershon Shaked
|
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Moshe Bar-Asher
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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.
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Hillel Furstenberg
|
Exact sciences
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Shlomo Alexander
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Jacob Ziv
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Ram Loevy
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Communications, Radio and Television
|
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Yaacov Farkas (“Ze’ev”)
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Communications, journalism
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1994
|
Moshe Greenberg
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Bible
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One of the first two recipients to receive the prize for Biblical studies.
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Moshe Weinfeld
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Haim Zalman Dimitrovsky
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Talmud
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Eliezer Schweid
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Jewish thought
|
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Shneur Zalman Feller
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Law
|
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Robert John (Israel) Aumann
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Economics
|
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Michael Bruno
|
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Avram Hershko
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Biochemistry
|
One of the first two recipients to receive the prize specifically for biochemistry.
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Nathan Sharon
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Family relationship: Brother of recipient Shmuel Shtrikman (2001, physics). One of the first two recipients to receive the prize specifically for biochemistry.
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Eliahu Swirski
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Agriculture
|
|
Hanoch Avenary [he]
|
Music
|
|
Yaakov Orland
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Hebrew song
|
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Arie Shapira
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composition
|
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Yad Sarah
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Special contribution to Society and the State
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Organization
|
Neot Kedumim
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Organization. Prize awarded jointly with Noga HaReuveni.
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Noga HaReuveni
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Jointly awarded with the staff of Neot Kedumim.
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1995
|
Claire Epstein[4]
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Archaeology
|
First recipient of the prize for archaeology.
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Dov Nir
|
Geography
|
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Amos Funkenstein
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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
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Jewish languages
|
|
Chone Shmeruk
|
|
Shimon Sandbank
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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
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general Literature
|
|
Ilan Chet
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Agriculture
|
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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
|
|
Nathan Nelson
|
Life Sciences
|
|
Yosef Kaplan
|
History of the Jewish people
|
|
Chava Turniansky
|
Jewish language and Literature
|
|
Adam Mazor
|
Architecture
|
|
Yoram Bilu
|
Sociology and Anthropology
|
|
Nola Chelton
|
Stage arts
|
|
Eliyahu Hacohen
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
Ron Nachman
|
|
2014
|
Shamma Y. Friedman
|
Talmud
|
|
Mordechai Segev
|
Physics and Chemistry
|
|
Yaacov Katan
|
Plant pathology and entomology
|
|
Irad Malkin
|
History
|
|
Aharon Lichtenstein
|
Jewish Literature
|
|
Marta Weinstock-Rosin
|
Medicine
|
|
Michal Na'aman
|
Visual arts
|
|
Haim Levy
|
Management
|
|
Avinoam Naor
|
Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State
|
|
Adina Bar-Shalom
|
2015
|
Chaim Topol
|
|
Esther Herlitz
|
|
David Gurfinkel
|
Cinema
|
|
Erez Biton
|
Hebrew Literature and poetry
|
|
Shimon Ullman
|
Mathematics and Computer science
|
|
David Weisburd
|
Social work and Criminology
|
|
Harold Zvi Schiffrin
|
East Asian studies
|
|
Shmuel Ahituv
|
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
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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
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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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