Also on Tuesday, Beit Shemesh Mayor Aliza Bloch stressed that "synagogues are not the enemy of the nation."
In 2014, the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington ended a 19-year-old partnership program with Beit Shemesh.
Recipients include Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, chairwomen of the Movement for Sovereignty, Moshe Koppel, a founder of the Kohelet Forum institute and the mayor of Beit Shemesh Aliza Bloch