Sapir prize

Amir Harash wins Sapir Prize for 2025; Roni Partchek takes debut award

Harash received the top honor at a ceremony held at the National Library of Israel, which hosted the prize event as part of celebrations marking 25 years since the award’s founding. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
From right: 2025 Sapir Prize debut winner Roni Partchek, honored for her novel “Sitara,” with Mifal HaPais CEO Adv. Beni Dreyfus, judging committee chair Dr. Ruth Calderon, Mifal HaPais board chair Itzik Lari, and 2025 Sapir Prize winner Amir Harash, awarded for “Bereavement and Failure and Zombies.
FROM LEFT, winner of the 2024 Sapir Prize, Yossi Avni-Levy, Mifal Hapais chairman Avigdor Itzhaky, former president of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut, Mifal Hapais CEO Benjamin Dreyfus. and winner of the 2024 Sapir Prize for a debut book, Ayal Hayut-Man.

Yossi Avni-Levy wins Sapir Prize for Literature

Avni-Levy will receive NIS 180,000 ($50,000) and his novel will be translated into Arabic and another language of his choosing, broadening its reach and fostering cross-cultural dialogue.

|ByNERIA BARR
2023 SAPIR PRIZE winner Ofra Offer Oren (middle), with Avigdor Yitzhaki, chairman of Mifal Hapayis (left) and CEO Benjamin Dreyfus.

Mifal Hapayis announces Sapir Prize winners

The Sapir Prize for a Debut Novel was given to Ilana Rudashevski’s Taska, published by Shtaim, which is about a family that immigrates to Israel from the Soviet Union in the ‘70s.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Culture Minister Chili Tropper, Sapir Prize winner Hila Blum and Mifal Hapayis chairman, Avigdor Yitzhaki.

Hila Blum’s 'How to Love Your Daughter' wins the Sapir Award

Other Sapir Award winners include David Grossman, Etgar Keret and Gail Hareven.

|ByHANNAH BROWN

Five writers shortlisted for Sapir Prize for Literature

The five candidates on the shortlist will receive a grant of NIS 40,000.

FEBRUARY 3, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Books

Esther Peled wins Sapir Prize

Author beats out two former winners to collect honor.

JANUARY 23, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
The book cover of 'Widely Open Underneath' by Esther Peled

Five books shortlisted for Sapir Prize

Two authors who have won the award in the past are back in the Sapir spotlight.

DECEMBER 10, 2017ByAMY SPIRO
Michal Ben-Naftali