Prize

The composer who solved a riddle: Hana Ajiashvili takes the Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music

2026 Azrieli Prize winner Hana Ajiashvili reimagines a medieval riddle in “Riddle,” shaping history and personal experience into a powerful score.

Hana accepting her prize at the announcement of the 2026 Laureates in Montreal on November 13, 2025.
PRIZE-WINNING composer Lior Navok.

Israeli Lior Navok wins prestigious Engel Prize for Ukraine war composition

Omar El Akkad attends the 76th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on November 19, 2025 in New York City.

National Book Award in nonfiction goes to ‘One day, everyone will have always been against this'

President of Israel Isaac "Bougie" Herzog with last year's Katz Prize winners.

Katz Prize 50th anniversary: call for nominations for the year 5785


Israeli series win top prizes at Series Mania

Israeli TV series Bloody Murray, Fire Dance and Pradys all won awards at the prestigious international television competition Series Mania.

  Bloody Murray

Three Israeli scientists win 2022 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists

These are awarded to scientists under 42, who have already made significant achievements and show promise in the fields of life sciences, chemistry and physical sciences and engineering.

 From left: is Noam Stern-Ginossar, Menny Shalom and Ronen Eldan.

No Israelis make list of 2022 Wolf Prize recipients

The esteemed International Wolf Foundation awards achievements in chemistry, physics, mathematics and architecture.

 Wolf Prize 2022

The Dov Levy Prize: Cast your vote to win a free ticket to Israel!

Vote today for the winner of the Dov Levy Prize and enter a competition to win a FREE round-trip ticket to Israel!

 Dov Levy Prize

Documentary on Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel wins an Emmy

Advocate was also nominated for a second award, Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary.

 LEA TSEMEL

Winners of Israel's 'Industry Prize' announced

Winners of the prestigious "Industry Prize" and the "Aryeh Shenkar z"l Life Achievements in Industry Prize" come from a wide variety of backgrounds.

The nine recipients of the 2021 Industry Prize and  Aryeh Shenkar z"l Life Achievements in Industry Prize

With the pandemic ending, Israel's artists come out to play

New exhibitions featuring Oren Fischer are sure to delight Israeli art lovers.

Sigal Mordechai, Oren Fischer, Graciela Drahi and Patrick Drahi

Pulitzers honor Darnella Frazier for phone video of George Floyd murder

Frazier has rarely discussed the video she made, but she testified for the prosecution at Chauvin's murder trial this year

A mural depicts African-American man George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody, at Mauerpark in Berlin, Germany, May 30, 2020.

American author Nicole Krauss receives prize for Jewish literature

Krauss was chosen by the Sami Rohr Prize panel of judges for her "valuable contribution to Jewish literature."

Nicole Krauss, the acclaimed author of The History of Love.

Hebrew Poetry prize goes to Shlomit Appel

‘I closed the shutters and left. I left behind me the years and the flowers I planted along the sides of the path... from now, the day empties and the heart fills with longing.’

PRESIDENT REUVEN Rivlin and his wife, Nechama, enjoy the beauty of Jerusalem in the snow in February 2015.