Award

WIZO Sweden president to receive royal medal for advancing Yiddish recognition

The recognition is widely viewed as a milestone for Sweden’s Jewish community, particularly at a time when concerns about antisemitism are growing across Europe.

WIZO Sweden President Susanne Sznajderman-Rytz.
President Isaac Herzog, Yeros, and her father Tesfaye.

Sister of missing Haymanut Kasau honored as family slams police over stalled investigation

Jane Yolen and her most famous book, "The Devil's Arithmetic."

Jane Yolen, whose The Devil’s Arithmetic became a Holocaust classic, dies at 87

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez presents the Commander's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit to Francesca Albanese, an Italian human rights expert, at Moncloa Palace on May 07, 2026 in Madrid, Spain.

Francesca Albanese receives prestigious award from Spanish Prime Minister


Ilana Dotan wins the 2025 Shiff Prize for figurative-realist art

The Shiff Prize was founded in 2008 by collector Dubi Shiff in memory of his father, Haim Shiff, a hotelier and early supporter of Israeli art.

SHIFF PRIZE WINNER Ilana Dotan.

Gold and Silver for Israel: Nation's chemistry team dominates international olympiad

Four students represented Israel in partnership with the Education Ministry and Maimonides Fund’s Future Scientists Center, primarily from central Israel communities. 

 Israel's National Chemistry Team brought home two gold and two silver medals, at the United Arab Emirates-based International Chemistry Olympiad.

ACUM awards music and literature prizes

Author Etgar Keret and composer Hagar Kadima receive Lifetime Achievement Awards.

 ETGAR KERET receives a Lifetime Achievement award from Roni Kuban.

Producer Lawrence Bender to receive lifetime achievement award at Jerusalem film fest

Lawrence Bender talks about chutzpah, Hollywood, and October 7 ahead of the 42nd Jerusalem Film Festival.

 LAWRENCE BENDER:  I worked really hard to support all my friends, and then no one was there for us after October 7 – and that was very disheartening.

Lifetime achievement awards for Moni Moshonov, Rina Schenfeld

The festive ceremony will take place at the Petah Tikva Culture Hall on October 28, in the presence of Mayor Rami Greenberg.

Moni Moshonov is among this year's Union of Israeli Artists honorees.

Nova massacre documentary We Will Dance Again wins an Emmy

The harrowing documentary tells the story of the massacre through interviews with survivors and through video and audio clips made by the victims, survivors, and terrorists themselves.

 Keshet Casarotti-Kalfa was killed at the Nova Music Festival, and his story is one of those told in the documentary, We Will Dance Again

NeuReality start-up wins special award

NeuReality, an Israeli AI start-up, wins a special award at InnoVEX 2025 in Taiwan for its groundbreaking technology that makes AI accessible to everyone.

 NeuReality’s NR1 system with pre-installed large language models

Grapevine: Recognizing Rubinstein

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Elyakim Rubinstein at his home in Jerusalem, 2022.

Ben-Gurion University awards seven honorary doctorates at Board of Governors meeting

President Prof. Daniel Chamovitz stated, “Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is proud to confer an honorary doctorate upon seven distinguished individuals who embody the legacy of David Ben-Gurion"

 Honorary recipients, with President Prof. Daniel Chamovitz and Rector Professor Chaim Hames

Pulitzer Prize goes to Gazan poet who discredited hostages, disputed murder of Bibas family

In his social media posts, Abu Toha "specifically disparaged female Israeli hostages, questioned their hostage status and implicitly justified their abduction."

 Mosab Abu Toha denying that Emily Damari should be classified as a hostage.