Guardian of Zion Award
The Guardian of Zion Award is an annual award given since 1997 to individuals 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.
| Year | Recipient | Nationality | Profession | Speech |
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| 1997 | Elie Wiesel | United States | Professional writer Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1986) |
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| 1998 | Herman Wouk | United States | Professional writer and 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner | |
| 1999 | A.M. Rosenthal | United States | Former New York Times editor Former New York Daily News columnist |
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| 2000 | Sir Martin Gilbert | United Kingdom | Historian and writer | |
| 2001 | Cynthia Ozick | United States | Professional writer | |
| 2002 | Charles Krauthammer | United States | The Washington Post columnist | [1] |
| 2003 | Ruth Roskies Wisse | United States | Yiddish professor of Harvard University | [2] |
| 2004 | Arthur Cohn | Switzerland | Filmmaker and writer | |
| 2005 | William Safire | United States | Author, journalist and speechwriter 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner |
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| 2006 | Daniel Pipes | United States | Author and historian | |
| 2007 | Norman Podhoretz | United States | Author, columnist | |
| 2008 | David Be'eri, Mordechai Eliav, Rabbi Yehuda Maly | Israel | [1] | |
| 2009 | Caroline Glick | Israel | Journalist[2] | |
| 2010 | Malcolm Hoenlein | United States | Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations[3] | |
| Dore Gold | Israel | |||
| 2012 | Israel Antiquities Authority | Israel | ||
| 2013 | James S. Snyder | Israel | ||
| 2017 | John R. Bolton | United States | National Security Advisor | |
| 2018 | Yisrael Meir Lau | Israel | ||
| 2019 | Natan Sharansky | Israel | ||
| 2022 | David M. Friedman | United States | United States Ambassador to Israel |
References
[edit]- ^ "הדף המבוקש לא נמצא על השרת - אוניברסיטת בר-אילן". www1.biu.ac.il.
- ^ Caroline Glick Receives ‘Guardian Of Zion’ Award[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Bar-Ilan University's Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies to Bestow its Guardian of Zion Award upon Malcolm I. Hoenlein - Bar Ilan University". www1.biu.ac.il.
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