Honorary Doctorate Recipients
Bar-Ilan University confers "Honorary Doctorate" degrees, "President’s Awards" and "Lifetime Achievement Awards" to individuals who have made their mark in Israel and abroad, in science and culture, government and economy, Jewish education and defense, and other significant areas, as well as to devoted University friends who have contributed to its development and advancement.
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1966 |
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US Vice President Hubert Humphrey |
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1968 |
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Max Fisher |
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Israeli President Zalman Shazar |
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1969 |
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US Chief Justice Earl Warren |
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1971 |
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Prof. Saul Lieberman |
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Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir |
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1972 |
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Joseph Merton Hyman |
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Louis John Mintz |
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Albert Parker |
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1973 |
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Phillip Stollman |
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Elie Wiesel |
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Rabbi Zemach M. Zambrowsky |
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1974 |
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Mayor Abraham D. Beame |
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Prof. Ernst Boris Chain |
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E. Alec Colman |
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William J. Levitt |
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Samuel S. Lunenfeld |
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Axel Springer |
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1975 |
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Rabbanit Sarah Herzog |
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Paul Zuckerman |
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1976 |
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Rabbi Dr. Max Gruenwald |
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Emeritus Chief Rabbi Isaac Nissim |
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H. Jerome Sisselman |
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U.K. Premier Harold Wilson |
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Dr. George S. Wise |
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1977 |
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Shimshon Feldman |
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Uri Zvi Greenberg |
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Chaim Herzog |
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Sir Isaac Wolfson |
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1978 |
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Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin |
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Nissim D. Gaon |
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Arthur Hubert |
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Dr. Yitshak Kister |
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Abraham Spiegel |
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Frieda Stallman |
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Max Stollman |
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1979 |
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Senator Frank Church |
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Lazarus Phillips |
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Prof. Raul Prebish |
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Moshe Schnitzer |
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Simone Veil |
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1980 |
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Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren |
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Ludwig Jesselson |
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Hermann Merkin |
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Lord Rothschild |
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Prof. Dov Sadan |
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Jane Stern |
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Philip F. Vineberg |
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1981 |
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Rabbi Mordechai Kirshblum |
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Prof. Emanuel Levinas |
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Dr. Irving Moskowitz |
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Philip Slomovitz |
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Jack D. Weiler |
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1982 |
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Arthur Belfer |
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Diane Belfer |
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Mayor Tom Bradley |
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Arnold Finkler |
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Prof. Simcha Noah Kramer |
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Stanley Lewis |
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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
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Dr. ltzhak Ernst Nebenzahl |
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Shlomo Zalman Shragai |
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1983 |
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S. Daniel Abraham |
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Dr. Leon Fill |
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Heinz Galinski |
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Prof. Nehama Leibowitz |
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Sir Neville Mott |
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Prof. A. Neher |
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Dr. Arno A. Penzias |
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Sir Michael Sobell |
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Jerome L. Stern |
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Morton Tartar |
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Sir Leonard Wolfson |
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David Zimand |
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1984 |
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Louis Bloomfield |
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Neri Bloomfield |
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Henry Knobil |
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Naftali Lavi |
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Clarence D. Long |
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Bruce Rappaport |
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Joseph Tanenbaum |
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1985 |
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US Vice President George Bush |
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Prof. Charles Fefferman |
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Prof. Abe Gelbart |
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Henri Glasberg |
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Charles Krown |
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Irving Stone |
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Herbert Tanzer |
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US Gov. Pete Wilson |
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Rena Zimand |
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1986 |
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Prof. Morton Bloomfield |
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Dr. Josef Burg |
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Prof. Irwin Cotler |
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Leona Finkler |
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Thomas J. Klutznik |
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Mayor Edward Koch |
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Venezuelan President Dr. Jaime Lusinchi |
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Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres |
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Joseph Solomon |
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Lord Rayner |
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1987 |
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Joseph Berman |
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Dr. Armand Hammer |
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Max M. Kampelman |
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Prof. Ezra Zion Melamed |
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Roy R. Neuberger |
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Prof. Isador Isaac Rabi |
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Blanca Roven Wintner |
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Prof. Rosalyn S. Yalow |
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1988 |
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Michael Floersheim |
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Dina Halpern |
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Benjamin Netanyahu |
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Dr. Robert Barton Nussenblatt |
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Prof. Emanuel R. Piore |
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Prof. Sir Randolph Quirk |
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Moshe Unna |
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1989 |
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Herbert Berman |
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Rabbi Pynchas Brener |
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Rena Costa |
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Prof. Martin Gilbert |
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Prof. Sheldon Lee Glashow |
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Solomon Krok |
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Abraham Krok |
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Lilly Shapell |
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Paul A. Volcker |
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Lord Young |
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Jacobo Zabludovsky |
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1990 |
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Prof. Joel D. Cooper |
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Jerome I. Feldman |
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Prof. Herbert A. Hauptman |
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Prof. A. Leo Levin |
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Prof. Igor Makarov |
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Prof. Rem Petrov |
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir |
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Herman Wouk |
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1991 |
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Samuel Cula-Rosenblat |
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Maria Finkle |
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Jacqueline Goldman |
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Dr. Ronald Hoffman |
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Rabbi Carl Klein |
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South African President Frederik W. de Klerk |
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Dr. Manfred Lehmann |
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Alfred Mackler |
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Henry G. Plitt |
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Ruth Rappaport |
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Italian Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff |
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Dr. Tova Comet-Walerstein |
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1992 |
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Aharon Dahan |
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Charles Dimston |
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Mikhail Gorbachev |
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Ruslyn Khasbulatov |
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Lord Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Jakobovits |
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Jacob Barry Kowarsky |
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Prof. Bernard Lewis |
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Arnold Lorber |
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Ian Macdonald Mackenzie |
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Loyd Harvey McNicol |
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Avraham Moshe Naftal |
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Dr. Hasia Yoffe-Naftal |
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Prof. Yuri Osipov |
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Pearl Resnick |
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Dr. Edward L. Steinberg |
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Dr. Gebhard Ziller |
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1993 |
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Shoshanna S. Cardin |
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Dr. Harry Ginsburg |
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Zevulun Hammer |
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Judith and Gerson Leiber |
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Robert Lifton |
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Manfred H. Meyer |
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Jack Nagel |
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Naphtali Lipschutz |
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Prof. Michael Pepper |
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Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin |
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Rabbi Dr. David Moshe Rosen |
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Edmundo Safdie |
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Jay Schottenstein |
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Saul Schottenstein |
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Lady Margaret Thatcher |
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1994 |
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Ernst Cramer |
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US Vice President Albert Gore, Jr. |
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Thomas O. Hecht |
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Prof. Lawrence R. Klein |
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Dan Levenson |
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Arthur L. Liman |
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Ingeborg Hanna Rennert |
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Samuel Schnitzer |
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John H. Slade |
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Prof. H. Eugene Stanley |
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1995 |
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Stanley Abramovitch |
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Mendel Aviv |
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Edward I. Baker |
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Dr. Samuel Broder |
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Charles Hughes |
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Dr. Monique C. Katz |
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Gabriel Levine |
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Eric Samson |
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Dr. Milton Shiffman |
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Melvin Stein |
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Dr. Laszlo Tauber |
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Selik Wengrowsky |
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Marion Wiesel |
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Prof. Meir Wilchek |
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1996 |
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Prof. Aharon Appelfeld |
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Dr. Ruben E. Beraja |
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Zalman Chaim Bernstein |
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Prof. Leo Esaki |
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Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer |
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Dr. Juergen Luethje |
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Sam Sebba |
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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz |
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1997 |
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Lorenz Israel Cederbaum |
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Dr. Donald J. Cohen |
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Ann S. Deshe |
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Prof. Menachem Elon |
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Isidore Falk |
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Chaim Fraiman |
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Czech President Vaclav Havel |
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Fanya Gottesfeld Heller |
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Rabbi Yosef Kapach |
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Mira Koschitzky |
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Natan Sharansky |
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Sigmund Strochlitz |
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1998 |
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Rabbi Haim David Halevy |
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Fred Kort |
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Yaakov Neeman |
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Joseph Orgler |
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Orna Porat |
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Justice Meir Shamgar |
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Naomi Shemer |
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Henry Taub |
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1999 |
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Dina Berniker |
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Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen |
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Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
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Rachel Dahan |
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Jack Gradel |
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Dr. Moshe Green |
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Maj. Gen. (res.) David lvry |
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Prof. Brian D. Josephson |
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Dr. Mordecai D. Katz |
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Pastor Friedrich-Wilhelm Fritz May |
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Irving Schneider |
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Marcus Rosenberg |
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2000 |
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Prof. Raymond V. Damadian |
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Governor Gray Davis |
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Prof. Jacob A. Frenkel |
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Australian Prime Minister John |
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Howard |
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Tova Han |
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Eliahu lzakson |
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Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein |
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Shlomo Moussaieff |
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Peter Rzepka |
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Moshe Sanbar |
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Prof. Werner (Abraham David) Silberstein |
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Max Webb |
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Joseph Frohlich West |
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Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Rabbi Prof. Emanuel Rackman |
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2001 |
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Elaine Bloom |
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Prof. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
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Rabbi Dr. Irving Greenberg |
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Prof. Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch |
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Dr. David Jeselsohn |
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Anne Lehmann |
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Prof. Deborah Lipstadt |
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Gitta Nagel |
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Elyakim Rubinstein |
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Nina Avidar Weiner |
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Maurice Wohl C.B.E. |
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Prof. A.B. Yehoshua |
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Rabbi Yehoshua Vogel |
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Award of Distinction |
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Ruth and Baruch Rappaport |
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Alumnus of the Year |
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IDF Chief of the Gen. Staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz |
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2002 |
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Lady Amelie Jakobovits |
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Prof. Alan J. Heeger |
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Cynthia Ozick |
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon |
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Anna Hitter Webb |
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Vivienne Wohl |
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Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Sarni Shamoon |
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Awards of Distinction |
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S. Daniel Abraham |
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Aharon and Rachel Dahan |
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Leslie L. Gonda |
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Jesselson Family |
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Drs. Mordecai D. and Monique C. Katz |
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Jack and Gitta Nagel |
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Dr. Edward Steinberg |
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Max and Anna Webb |
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2003 |
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Ronnie Benin-Barr |
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Bronia Hacker |
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Amos Hakham |
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav |
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Sarni Shamoon |
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Rabbi Prof. David Weiss Halivni |
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Prof. Xu Xin |
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Presidential Award of Honor |
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Aharon Dahan |
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Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Benny Landa |
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Award of Distinction |
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Drs. Vivienne and Maurice Wohl C.B.E. |
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2004 |
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Josef (Yoske) Achituv |
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Lt. Gen. (ret.) Shaul Mofaz |
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Father Takeji Otsuki |
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Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks |
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Moshe Shamir |
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Gabi Weisfeld |
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Award of Distinction |
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Barbara Kort |
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2005 |
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Prof. Richard Axel |
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Jose Maria Aznar |
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Prof. Alan Dershowitz |
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Australian Foreign Minister the Hon. Alexander Downer |
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Eng. Israel Feldman |
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Samuel Gewurz |
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David Gradel |
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Teddy Kollek |
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Barbara Kort |
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Benny Landa |
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Rabbi Israel Meir Lau |
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Ehud Manor |
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Conrad Morris |
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Eli Reifman |
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Lifetime Achievement Award |
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The Hon. Irwin Cotler |
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2006 |
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Prof. Robert J. Aumann |
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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Nairn Dangoor |
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Joseph Fetter |
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Mina Goodman |
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Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman |
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Harvey M. Krueger |
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Prof. K. Alex Muller |
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Ephraim Propp |
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Aliki Rzepka |
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Jacob Shachar |
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Angela Shamoon |
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Mortimer Zuckerman |
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The Gesher Theatre |
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Lifetime Achievement Award |
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S. Daniel Abraham |
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President's Award for Outstanding Educational Projects in Israel |
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The Atidim Foundation, under the chairmanship of Eitan Wertheimer |
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2007 |
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Prof. Aaron Ciechanover |
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Nochi Dankner |
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Abraham Foxman |
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Patricia Friedland |
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Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman |
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Everard Goodman |
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Menashe Kadishman |
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Marc Rich |
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Jack Slomovic |
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2008 |
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Allan Friedland |
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Adv. Vair Green |
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Prof. Theodor W. Hansch |
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Maurice Kanbar |
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S. Lee Kohrman |
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Prof. Yuan T. Lee |
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Aharon Megged |
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Rabbanit Rachel Neriya |
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Avi Shaked |
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Prof. Rabbi Avraham Steinberg |
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Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Israeli President Shimon Peres |
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2009 |
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Father Patrick Desbois |
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Aryeh "Lava" Eliav |
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David Fuhrer |
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Prof. Ruth Gavison |
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Prof. Walter Kohn |
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Prof. Roger David Kornberg |
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Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm |
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Meir Shamir |
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Alan Zekelman |
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Miriam Zahar |
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2010 |
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Justice Prof. Aharon Barak |
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Rabbi Chananya Chollak |
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Prof. Robert F. Curl |
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Eli Hurvitz |
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Lea Koenig Stolper |
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Alvin T. Levitt |
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Cherna Shavers Moskowitz |
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Barre Seid |
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Norman Sternthal |
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Romie Tager QC |
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Prof. Ada Yonath |
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2011 |
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Eli Amir |
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IDF Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi |
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Justice Hadassa Ben-ltto |
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Rabbi Haim Drukman |
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Marcos David Katz |
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Galia Maor |
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Prof. Luc Montagnier |
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Barbara Landis Seid |
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2012 |
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Shlomo Bar-Shavit |
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Angelica Berrie |
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Michael (Mick) Lawrence Davis |
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Prof. Albert Fert |
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Marc Gold |
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Hubert Leven |
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Malka Puterkovsky |
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Rabbi Haim Sabato |
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Shlomo Yanai |
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2013 |
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Shmuel Atzmon-Wircer |
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Susanne Czuker |
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Efraim Halevy |
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Morris Kahn |
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Mario Moshe Levy |
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Prof. Edward C. Prescott |
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Selim Yehoshua Salti |
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Prof. Dan Shechtman |
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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra |
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2014 |
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Raya Strauss Bendror |
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Emunah, National Religious Women's Organization |
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Prof. Martin Karplus |
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Ariel Kor |
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Prof. Michael Levitt |
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Levy Yitzhak Rachmani |
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Johanne Sternthal |
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Rabbi Prof. Moshe David Tendler |
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Chaim Topol |
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Prof. Arieh Warshel |
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2015 |
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Israeli President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin |
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Raymond Ackerman |
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Dr. Sam Alter |
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Tzipora Mizrahi-Carasso & Ariel Carasso |
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Dr. Joseph Ciechanover |
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Lt. General Benjamin Gantz |
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Yehoram Gaon |
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Sir Andre Geim |
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Blu Greenberg |
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Sergio Grosskopf |
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Rabbanit Chana Henkin |
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Colonel Richard Kemp CBE |
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Rabbi Prof. Nachum L. Rabinovitch |
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Taglit-Birthright Israel |
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Laurent Trau |
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2016 |
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Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky |
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Rabbi Haskel Lookstein |
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Prof. Serge Haroche |
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Nurit Hirsch |
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Miriam Peretz |
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NASA Administrator Chalres F. Bolden Jr. |
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Isi Liebler |
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Bnei Akiva |
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2017 |
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Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar |
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Prof. Avram Hershko |
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Dvora (Halter) Kedar |
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Tal Brody |
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Prof. Shafi (Shafrira) Goldwasser |
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Dr. David Dangoor |
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Nily Falic |
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Bernard-Henri Lévy |
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Magen David Adom |
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2018 |
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Rabbi Dr. Binyamin (Benny) Lau |
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Agi Mishol |
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Ronnie Stern |
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The IDF Orchestra |
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Evelyn and Dr. Shmuel Katz |
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Yoram Cohen |
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Malcolm Isaac Hoenlein |
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Etgarim-Challenge |
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Award of Distinction |
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Prof. Shlomo Havlin |
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2019 |
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Dr. Miriam Adelson |
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Lieutenant General (ret.) Gadi Eisenkot |
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Israel Harel |
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Sami and Itzhak Sagol |
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Rabbi Kalman Samuels |
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The Reim Duo – Yisrael Gottesdiener and Benny Rosenbaum |
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Dr. Zipora Schorr |
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Dr. Mordecai D. Katz |
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Pastor Friedrich-Wilhelm Fritz May |
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Irving Schneider |
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Marcus Rosenberg |