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.

|ByRONNIE ROSENMAN
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

Navok describes his 10-minute orchestral piece, 'Blue, Yellow, Smoke,' composed during the early days of the Russia-Ukraine War, as trying to 'capture the melancholic mood of war.'

|ByLIRAN GURKIEWICZ
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'

“It’s very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide,” El Akkad said in his acceptance speech.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
President of Israel Isaac "Bougie" Herzog with last year's Katz Prize winners.

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

Applications for the prestigious Katz Prize, awarded for the 50th year, will close in about two weeks, on the 4th of Elul.

|ByAVI ELIYA

Charles Bronfman currently accepting 2020 nominations

“Each of the Prize laureates has a special spark. They approach their work with humility, passion and leadership," said Bronfman.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Birthright founder Charles Bronfman at the seventh annual Jerusalem Post conference, April 29, 2018