Guardian of Zion Award
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The Guardian of Zion Award is an annual award given since 1997 to Jews who have been supportive of the State of Israel
. It is awarded at the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University
, where the prize recipient gives the keynote address.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. It is awarded at the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University is a university in Ramat Gan of the Tel Aviv District, Israel.Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is now Israel's second-largest academic institution. It has nearly 26,800 students and 1,350 faculty members...
, where the prize recipient gives the keynote address.
| Year | Recipient | Nationality | Profession | Speech |
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| 1997 | Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
Professional writer Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who... (1986) |
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| 1998 | Herman Wouk Herman Wouk Herman Wouk is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author of novels including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.-Biography:... |
United States | Professional writer and 1952 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City... winner |
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| 1999 | A.M. Rosenthal | United States | Former New York Times editor Former New York Daily News New York Daily News The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011.... columnist |
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| 2000 | Sir Martin Gilbert Martin Gilbert Sir Martin John Gilbert, CBE, PC is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history... |
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
Historian and writer | |
| 2001 | Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. She is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson.-Background:Cynthia Shoshana Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children... |
United States | Professional writer | |
| 2002 | Charles Krauthammer Charles Krauthammer Charles Krauthammer, MD is an American Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician. His weekly column appears in The Washington Post and is syndicated to more than 275 newspapers and media outlets. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and The New... |
United States | The Washington Post columnist | http://www.biu.ac.il/Spokesman/Krauthammer-text.html |
| 2003 | Ruth Roskies Wisse | United States | Yiddish professor of Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... |
http://www.biu.ac.il/Spokesman/Pressrel/Wisse.pdf |
| 2004 | Arthur Cohn Arthur Cohn Arthur Cohn is a film producer.Six of his films have won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and he was awarded the Guardian of Zion Award in 2004... |
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
Filmmaker and writer | |
| 2005 | William Safire William Safire William Lewis Safire was an American author, columnist, journalist and presidential speechwriter.... |
United States | Author, journalist and speechwriter 1978 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City... winner |
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| 2006 | Daniel Pipes Daniel Pipes Daniel Pipes is an American historian, writer, and political commentator. He is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum and its Campus Watch project, and editor of its Middle East Quarterly journal... |
United States | Author and historian | |
| 2007 | Norman Podhoretz Norman Podhoretz Norman B. Podhoretz is an American neoconservative pundit and writer for Commentary magazine.-Early life:The son of Julius and Helen Podhoretz, Jewish immigrants from the Central European region of Galicia, Podhoretz was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn... |
United States | Author, columnist | |
| 2008 | David Be'eri, Mordechai Eliav, Rabbi Yehuda Maly | Israel | ||
| 2009 | Caroline Glick Caroline Glick Caroline Glick is an American-Israeli journalist for Makor Rishon and is the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post. She is also the Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy.-Life:... |
Israel | Journalist | |
| 2010 | Malcolm Hoenlein Malcolm Hoenlein Malcolm Hoenlein is the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations since June 1986. He is the founding executive director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.Born in... |
United States | Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations |