Sokolov Award
Encyclopedia
The Sokolov Prize is an Israel
i journalism award, awarded by the Tel Aviv
municipality, in memory of Nahum Sokolow
.
The award has been granted since 1956, initially to outstanding print journalists and since 1981 to journalists from the electronic media. It is considered the most prominent award for Israeli Journalism, second only to the Israel Prize
for Journalism.
The prize is awarded annually, in close proximity to Nahum Sokolow's birthday (ה' בשבט, Hebrew calendar
), or the anniversary of his death (י"ב באייר, Hebrew calendar).
.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i journalism award, awarded by the Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
municipality, in memory of Nahum Sokolow
Nahum Sokolow
Nahum Sokolow was a Zionist leader, author, translator, and a pioneer of Hebrew journalism....
.
The award has been granted since 1956, initially to outstanding print journalists and since 1981 to journalists from the electronic media. It is considered the most prominent award for Israeli Journalism, second only to the Israel Prize
Israel Prize
The Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
for Journalism.
The prize is awarded annually, in close proximity to Nahum Sokolow's birthday (ה' בשבט, Hebrew calendar
Hebrew calendar
The Hebrew calendar , or Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances. It determines the dates for Jewish holidays and the appropriate public reading of Torah portions, yahrzeits , and daily Psalm reading, among many ceremonial uses...
), or the anniversary of his death (י"ב באייר, Hebrew calendar).
Objectives
The prize is awarded to encourage journalistic excellence and reward outstanding achievements in investigative journalismInvestigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Investigative journalism...
.
Committee of Judges
The Sokokov Award's statute stipulates that the mayor shall appoint a selecting committee, consisting of three members, for the purpose of picking the Judges on the award committee. The selecting committee shall include an academy figure, a jurist and a representative of the mayor. The mayor then shall bring the make-up of the selecting committee to the approval of the city council. The selecting committee shall compose the Committee of Judges that will include two senior journalists, two academy figures, and a representative of the municipality. Usually the make-up of the Committee of Judges, who selects the winners of the printed media, is different from those who determine the winners of the electronic media.Winners
| Year | Name | Notes/awarded for |
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| 1956 | David Zakai | |
| Yosef Yambur | ||
| Benzion Katz | ||
| Azriel Carlebach Azriel Carlebach Dr. Ezriel Carlebach was a journalist and editorial writer during the period of Jewish settlement in Palestine and during the early days of the state of Israel... |
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| Ephraim Talmi | ||
| 1958 | Yehuda Gotthelf | |
| Yosef Heftman | ||
| Aryeh Navon | ||
| Ephraim Kishon Ephraim Kishon ' was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He is one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.- Early life and World War II :... |
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| Ezra Rivlis | ||
| 1959 | David Lazar David Lazăr David Beniamin Lazăr is a Romanian footballer currently playing for Pandurii Târgu Jiu.-External links:* * at soccerway.com* UEFA.com... |
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| Uri Keysari | ||
| Haim Shrer | ||
| Moshe Sharett Moshe Sharett Moshe Sharett on 15 October 1894, died 7 July 1965) was the second Prime Minister of Israel , serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms.-Early life:... |
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| 1961 | Rafael Bashan | |
| Herzl Berger Herzl Berger Dr Herzl Berger was a Minsk-born Israeli activist and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1951 and 1962.-Biography:Born in Minsk in the Russian Empire , Berger attended the Reali High School in his home city... |
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| Haim Gouri Haim Gouri Haim Gouri is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv. After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach militia. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to assist Holocaust survivors to come to Palestine... |
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| 1964 | Michael Bar-Zohar Michael Bar-Zohar Dr Michael Bar-Zohar is an Israeli historian, novelist and politician. His World War II-era nonfiction and fiction works have been published in English, French, Hebrew, and other languages. He was also a member of the Knesset on behalf of the Alignment and Labor Party during the 1980s and early... |
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| Yitzhak Gruenbaum Yitzhak Gruenbaum Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a noted leader of the Zionist movement among Polish Jewry between the two world wars and of the Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine, and the first Interior Minister of Israel.-Education and journalistic career:Gruenbaum was born in Warsaw, Poland... |
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| Kuf' Shabtai | - | |
| 1966 | Ruth Bondy | |
| Herzl Rosenblum Herzl Rosenblum Dr Herzl Rosenblum was an Israeli journalist and politician. A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he worked as editor of Yedioth Ahronoth for more than 35 years.-Biography:... |
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| 1969 | Haim Hefer Haim Hefer -Biography:Hefer was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1925 to Issachar Feiner, a chocolate salesman, and Rivka Herzberg, a housewife. He had a private Hebrew tutor.... |
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| Isaac Ramba | ||
| 1972 | Hana Zemer | - |
| Baruch Nadal | - | |
| Ya'akov Rabi | - | |
| 1975 | Yeshayahu Avrech | - |
| Mark Geffen | ||
| Shalom Rosenfeld | - | |
| Ze'ev Schiff Ze'ev Schiff Ze'ev Schiff was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Ha'aretz.... |
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| 1977 | Aryeh Disenchick | - |
| Haviv Canaan | ||
| 1981 | Michael Assaf | |
| Nahum Barnea Nahum Barnea Nahum Barnea is an Israeli journalist. Barnea writes for Yedioth Ahronoth and Ha'Ayin HaShevi'it. He won the Israel Prize in 2007.-Biography:... |
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| Ya'akov Farkash (Ze'ev) | ||
| 1984 | Haim Isaac | |
| Ya'akov Erez, Avi Bettelheim, Avraham Tirosh | ||
| 1985 | Eitan Almog | |
| Yossi Goddard | ||
| Ziv Yonatan | ||
| Ehud Yaari Ehud Yaari Ehud Ya'ari is an Israeli journalist, author, television personality and political commentator.-Biography:Ehud Ya'ari was born in 1945. He was married to Hava Ya'ari. They divorced after she was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.... |
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| Israel public channel 1 Channel 1 (Israel) Channel 1 is one of the oldest television channels in Israel and one of five terrestrial channels in the country... , Israel Army Radio Israel Army Radio Army Radio or Galei Tzahal known in Israel by its acronym Galatz , is a nationwide Israeli radio network operated by the Israel Defense Forces.... and Kol Yisrael Kol Yisrael Kol Yisrael is Israel's public domestic and international radio service, operated as a division of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.-History:... teams |
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| 1988 | Gideon Greif Gideon Greif Gideon Greif is an Israeli historian.-Education:From 1965 until 1969 Gideon Greif attended Municipal High School in Tel Aviv. Later, from 1974 to 1976 he attended Tel Aviv University where he got his Bachelor's degree in Jewish History, studying the History of the Land of Israel... |
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| Edna Pe'er | ||
| Avshalom Kor Avshalom Kor Dr. Avshalom Kor is an Israeli linguist and expert on Hebrew grammar and semantics.He is known to provide upon request, the grammatical root of any given Hebrew word and/or name along with its Biblical origins and contextual references.He is probably best known as an authority on the gender of... |
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| Danny Rubinstein Danny Rubinstein Daniel "Danny" Rubinstein is an Israeli journalist and author. He previously worked for Haaretz, where he was an Arab affairs analyst and a member of the editorial board.-Biography:... |
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| Nehemia Shtrasler | ||
| 1993 | Itai Anghel Itai Anghel Itai Anghel is an Israeli news correspondent. He was a staff reporter for Uvda, a television news program on Channel 2. Anghel teaches a course about world conflicts at the Tel Aviv Open University.-Journalism career:... |
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| Dov Bar-Nir Dov Bar-Nir Dr Dov Bar-Nir was a Belgium-born Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapam between 1949 and 1951.-Biography:Born in Brussels in Belgium, Bar-Nir studied social science at the University of Strasbourg, where he was awarded a PhD... |
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| Dudu Dayan | ||
| Yehudith Lutz | ||
| Shlomo Nakdimon | ||
| Hanna Kim | ||
| Gideon Remez | ||
| Shlomo Nizan, Yair Garbuz Yair Garbuz Yair Garbuz is an Israeli artist. He was director of the art school at Beit Berl Teachers Training College for 12 years.-Biography:Yair Garbuz was born in Givatayim, Israel. In 1962-1967, while a member of Kibbutz Kfar HaHoresh, he studied painting under Raffi Lavie. He also attended the Avni... , Danny Carmen, Tirtzah Eisenberg |
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| 1998 | Michael Handelzalts | |
| Mishe Zack | ||
| Rafik Halabi | ||
| Tommy Lapid | ||
| Carmela Menashe Carmela Menashe Carmela Menashe is an Israeli journalist serving as a military reporter on IDF issues, on Israel's public radio Kol Yisrael.In 1974, Menashe started working at Kol Yisrael as a secretary. After graduating from a correspondents course, she was appointed the editor of the "Tzivei Keshset" radio... |
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| Moshe Negbi | ||
| Sever Plocker | ||
| Doron Rosenblum | ||
| 2000 | Mordechai Gilat | |
| Nathan Zahavi | ||
| Dov Yodkovsky | ||
| Yehiel Limor and Rafi Mann | ||
| Amos Carmeli | ||
| Michal Niv | ||
| Einat Fishbein | ||
| 2002 | Mordechai Naor | |
| Anat Tal Shir and Zadoc Yehezkeli | ||
| Razi Barkai | ||
| Nakdimon Rogel | ||
| Oded Shahar | ||
| 2004 | Uri Avnery Uri Avnery Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement.A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965–74 and 1979–81... |
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| Daniel Ben-Simon | ||
| Emanuel Halperin Emanuel Halperin Emanuel Halperin is an Israeli journalist, Television Presenter, and editor. Likewise, a Lecturer, and a Theatre and Television Actor. Halperin is best known in Israel for his role as one of the main presenters of the nightly News program MeHayom LeMahar, earning the reputation of a news and... |
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| Hanoch Marmari | ||
| Ruvik Rosenthal | ||
| Miki Rosenthal | ||
| Muli Shapira | ||
| 2005 | Ya'akov Ahimeir Ya'akov Ahimeir Ya'akov Ahimeir , is a senior Israeli journalist, and a television and radio personality.-Biography:Ahimeir was born in Ramat Gan in 1938, the son of the Revisionist Zionist leader Abba Ahimeir... |
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| Ben Shani | ||
| Gideon Eshet | ||
| Guy Leshem | ||
| 2006 | Uzi Benizman | |
| Ruth Sinai | ||
| Nissim Mishal | ||
| Itai Landsberg | ||
| 2007 | Shlomi Eldar | |
| Yaron London Yaron London -Biography:London was born in Tel Aviv in 1940 to actor Bezalel London .London studied in the Herzliya Hebrew High School and later left it for the agricultural boarding school HaKfar HaYarok. In 1961, after his service in the IDF, he moved to Jerusalem to study graphics at Bezalel Academy of Art... |
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| Uri Klein | ||
| Ran Resnik | ||
| 2008 | Aryeh Golan | |
| Yaron Dekel | ||
| Uri Elitzur | ||
| 2009 | David Witzthum David Witzthum David Witzthum is an Israeli television presenter and editor and lecturer on German history and culture. He is mostly known in Israel as one of the main presenters of the nightly news program MeHayom LeMahar.-Biography:... |
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| Omri Asenheim | ||
| Zvi Barel | ||
| Yossi Melman Yossi Melman Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer and journalist.Yossi Melman graduated from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University... |
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| 2011 | Yigal Sarna | |
| Vardi Kahana | ||
| Haim Rivlin | ||
| Raviv Druker | ||