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


Shtetl mystery ‘The Slaughterman’s Daughter’ wins top UK Jewish book prize

The book's protagonist, Fanny Keismann, a ritual slaughterer-turned-housewife to cheesemaker, sets out to track down a missing relative.

A Jewish shtetl in eastern Europe in 1936

Israel wins international tunneling award for archaeology

Israel's project is very archaeologically focused, especially given the rich history that lies beneath the surface of much of the country, especially in cities thousands of years old.

A view from the Jerusalem excavation site in the City of David‏

Giving Rabbi Sacks the Genesis Prize is the honorable, responsible move

It is the most meaningful way to guarantee that his memory will be a blessing and that we will all find comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

RABBI LORD Jonathan Sacks speaks at St. Mary’s University College Chapel in London in September.

Technion Harvey prize in science awarded to Israeli, American professors

The Harvey Prize is awarded each for outstanding achievements in a wide variety of fields, including science and technology, human health, and contributions to humanity.

PROF. RAPHAEL MECHOULAM

Prof. David Kazhdan becomes first Israeli to win the Shaw Prize

Prof. David Kazhdan is one of the great luminaries of the representation theory, his originality and knowledge are incomprehensible.

David Kazhdan

How will COVID-19 impact global poverty?

Boris Mints Institute laureate Professor Sabina Alkire presents the latest research on global poverty.

An illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), depicts the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Nefesh B’Nefesh announces winners of 2020 Bonei Zion Prize

Hundreds were nominated to receive this year's prize. Seven of them were selected, representing the same number of categories.

Sylvan Adams

Hebrew University Professor wins Abel Prize - the 'Nobel of Math'

Professor Furstenberg survived Kristallnacht, eventually moving to Israel in 1965 and helping to establish the State as a global centre of mathematical excellence.

Professor Furstenberg on Hebrew University Campus, March, 2020

EMET Prize Committee Issues Call for 2020 Prize Nominees

The EMET prize is awarded in five different general areas: culture and art, exact sciences, life sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

2019 EMET Prize Award Ceremony

Marketing associate of the month: Bank Hapoalim’s Asaf Azulay

Marketing Association selects Asaf Azulay, head of marketing for Bank Hapoalim as the Marketing Associate of the Month

Asaf Azulay