List
For each year, the recipients are, in most instances, listed in the order in which they appear on the official Israel Prize website.
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| Year | Name[1] | Field | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Gedaliah Alon | Jewish studies | Posthumously awarded prize, three years after his death.
First recipient of the prize for Jewish studies. |
| Haim Hazaz | Literature | One of first two recipients of the prize for Literature. | |
| Ya'akov Cohen | Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1958.
One of first two recipients of the prize for Literature. | ||
| Dina Feitelson-Schur | Education | First female recipient of the Israel Prize.
First recipient of the prize for Education. | |
| Mark Dvorzhetski | Social science | First recipient of the prize for Social science. | |
| Lipman Heilprin | Medical science | First recipient of the prize for medicine or Medical science. | |
| Zeev Ben-Zvi | Sculpture | First recipient of the prize for any of the fine arts. | |
| Shimshon Amitsur | Exact sciences | One of the first two recipients of the prize for Exact sciences. | |
| Jacob Levitzki | Family relationship: Father of recipient Alexander Levitzki (1990, Life sciences).
One of the first two recipients of the prize for Exact sciences. | ||
| 1954 | Moshe Zvi Segal | Jewish studies | First rabbi to receive the Israel Prize. |
| Schmuel Hugo Bergmann | Humanities | Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1974.
First recipient of the prize for the Humanities. | |
| David Shimoni | Literature | ||
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1958. | ||
| Arthur Biram | Education | ||
| Gad Tedeschi | Jurisprudence | First recipient of the prize for Jurisprudence or law. | |
| Franz Ollendorff | Exact sciences | ||
| Michael Zohary | Life sciences | First recipient of the prize for Life sciences. | |
| Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer | Agriculture | First recipient of the prize for Agriculture. | |
| Ödön Pártos | Music | First recipient of the prize for Music. | |
| 1955 | Ephraim Urbach | Jewish studies | |
| Isaac Heinemann | |||
| Zalman Shneur | Literature | ||
| Yitzhak Lamdan | |||
| Michael Fekete | Exact sciences | ||
| Israel Reichert | Life sciences | ||
| Yaakov Ben-Tor | |||
| Akiva Vroman | |||
| Benjamin Shapira | Medical science | ||
| Sara Hestrin-Lerner | Family relationship: Sister of recipient Shlomo Hestrin (1957, Exact sciences). | ||
| Netanel Hochberg | Agriculture | ||
| Zahara Schatz | Painting and Sculpture | ||
| 1956 | Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai | Jewish studies | |
| Yigael Yadin | |||
| Yehezkel Abramsky | Rabbinical literature | First recipient of the prize for specifically Rabbinical literature. | |
| Gershon Shufman | Literature | ||
| Miriam Yalan-Shteklis | Children's literature | First recipient of the prize specifically for Children's literature. | |
| Nechama Leibowitz | Education | ||
| Yaakov Talmon | Social sciences | ||
| Avraham HaLevi Frankel | Exact sciences | ||
| Manfred Aschner | Life sciences | ||
| Haim Ernst Wertheimer | Medicine | ||
| Hanna Rovina | Theatre | First recipient of the prize for the Theatre, acting or Stage arts. | |
| 1957 | Haim Shirman | Jewish studies | |
| Yohanan Levi | Humanities | Posthumously awarded Prize. | |
| Yaakov Fichman | Literature | ||
| Uri Zvi Grinberg | |||
| Paltiel Daykan | Jurisprudence | ||
| Siegfried Lehman | Education | ||
| Shlomo Hestrin | Exact sciences | Family relationship: Brother of recipient Sara Hestrin-Lerner (1955, Medical science). | |
| David Feingold | |||
| Gad Avigad | |||
| Saul Adler | Medicine | ||
| Shmuel Horowitz | Agriculture | ||
| Paul Ben-Haim | Music | ||
| Reuvein Margolies | Rabbinical literature | ||
| Eliezer Smoli | Children's literature | ||
| Dov Karmi | Architecture | Family relationships: Father of recipients Ram Karmi (2002, Architecture) and Ada Karmi-Melamede (2007, Architecture). First recipient of the prize for Architecture. | |
| 1958 | Yosef Klausner | Jewish studies | |
| Ben-Zion Dinur | Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1973. | ||
| Gershom Scholem | |||
| Yehezkel Kaufmann | |||
| Yitzhak Baer | |||
| Isaac HaLevi Herzog | Rabbinical literature | ||
| Yehuda Leib Maimon | |||
| Yosef Zvi HaLevy | Family relationship: Grandfather of recipient Abraham Haim Halevy (2002, Agriculture). | ||
| Martin Buber | Humanities | ||
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Literature | Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1954. | |
| Isaac Dov Berkowitz | |||
| Ya'akov Cohen | Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1953. | ||
| Youth Aliyah | Education | Organization – one of the first four organizations to receive the Prize. | |
| Rachel Katznelson-Shazar | Social sciences | ||
| Yoel (Giulio) Racah | Exact sciences | ||
| Marcus Reiner | |||
| Leo Picard | Life sciences | ||
| Bernhard Zondek | Medicine | ||
| Selig Suskin | Agriculture | ||
| Bezalel Academy of Art and Design | Painting and Sculpture | Organization – one of the first four organizations to receive the Prize. | |
| Habima Theatre | Theatre | ||
| Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Music | ||
| 1959 | Shlomo Yosef Zevin | Rabbinical literature | |
| Leo Aryeh Mayer | Humanities | ||
| S. Yizhar (Yizhar Smilansky) | Literature | ||
| Ezra Fleischer | |||
| Ephraim Katchalski (Ephraim Katzir) | Life sciences | Family relationship: Brother of recipient Aharon Katzir (1961, Life sciences). | |
| Michael Sela | |||
| Hillel (Heinz) Oppenheimer | Agriculture | ||
| Joseph Zaritsky | Painting | ||
| Yehoshua Bertonov | Theatre | Family relationship: Father of recipient Devorah Bertonov (1991, Stage arts). | |
| 1960 | Abraham Haim Shalit | Jewish studies | |
| Avraham Arnon | Education | ||
| Shabtai Rosenne | Jurisprudence | ||
| Aharon Meskin | Theatre | ||
| Isaac Michaelson | Medicine | ||
| Franz Sondheimer | Exact sciences | ||
| 1961 | Shlomo Goren | Rabbinical literature | |
| Yechezkel Kutscher | Humanities | ||
| Yehuda Burla | Literature | ||
| Aharon Katzir | Life sciences | Family relationship: Brother of recipient Ephraim Katzir (1959, Life sciences). | |
| Ora Kedem | |||
| Jacob van der Hoeden | Agriculture | ||
| Menachem Avidom | Music | ||
| 1962 | Hanoch Yelon | Jewish studies | |
| Joseph Bentwich | Education | ||
| Yitzhak Kanav | Social sciences | ||
| Ze'ev Lev | Exact sciences | ||
| Zvi Sliternik | Medicine | ||
| Arieh Sharon | Architecture | ||
| 1963 | Menachem Mendel Kasher | Rabbinical literature | |
| Nathan Rotenstreich | Humanities | ||
| Eliezer Steinman | Literature | ||
| Avraham Fahn | Life sciences | ||
| Mordechai Ardon | Painting | ||
| 1964 | Ze'ev Ben-Haim | Jewish studies | |
| Moshe Zilberg | Jurisprudence | ||
| Moshe Rachmilewitz | Medicine | ||
| Meir Margalit | Theatre | ||
| 1965 | Shlomo Zemach | Literature | |
| Shlomo Dykman | |||
| Karl Frankenstein | Education | ||
| Israel Defense Forces | Organization – the only organization to receive the Prize during the 1960s. | ||
| Judith Shuval | Social sciences | ||
| Amos de-Shalit | Exact sciences | ||
| Igal Talmi | |||
| Shmuel Stoller | Agriculture | ||
| Mordechai Seter | Music | ||
| 1966 | Shlomo Morag | Jewish studies | |
| Yitzhak Arieli | Rabbinical literature | ||
| Hans Jakob Polotsky | Humanities | ||
| Moshe Rudolf Bloch | Life sciences | ||
| Alfred Mansfeld | Architecture | ||
| Dora Gad | |||
| 1967 | Avraham Shlonsky | Literature | |
| Ernst Simon | Education | ||
| Benjamin Akzin | Jurisprudence | ||
| Aryeh Leo Olitzki | Medicine | ||
| Marcel Janco | Painting | ||
| 1968 | Ovadia Hedaya | Rabbinical literature | |
| Moshe Yechiel Epstein | [2] | ||
| Shmuel Yeivin | Jewish studies | ||
| Benjamin Mazar | |||
| Dov Sadan | |||
| Shmuel Samborsky | Humanities | ||
| Shlomo Pines | |||
| Avigdor Hameiri | Literature | ||
| Natan Alterman | |||
| Yaakov Berman | Education | ||
| Alexander Dushkin | |||
| Shoshana Persitz | |||
| David Horowitz | Social sciences | ||
| Shimon Agranat | Jurisprudence | ||
| Emanuel Goldberg | Exact sciences | ||
| Ernst David Bergmann | Life sciences | ||
| Chaim Sheba | Medicine | ||
| Hanan Openheimer | Agriculture | ||
| Yitzhak Danziger | Sculpture | ||
| Yosef Milo | Theatre | ||
| Gertrud Kraus | Dance | First recipient of the prize specifically for dance. | |
| Benjamin Idelson | Architecture | ||
| 1969 | Yosef Qafih (Kapach) | Jewish studies | Family relationship: Husband of recipient Bracha Qafih (1999, Special contribution to Society and the State). The first husband and wife to have both received the Israel Prize (followed by Elihu Katz [1989] and Ruth Katz [2012]). |
| Joshua Prawer | Humanities | ||
| Schneor Lipson | Life sciences | ||
| Shimon Finkel | Theatre | ||
| Yuval Ne'eman | Exact sciences | Returned the Prize in 1992. | |
| 1970 | Ovadia Yosef | Rabbinical literature | |
| Abba Kovner | Literature | ||
| Leah Goldberg | posthumously | ||
| Don Patinkin | Social sciences | ||
| Josef Tal | Music | ||
| Andre De Vries | Medicine | ||
| 1971 | Saul Lieberman | Jewish studies | |
| Haim Ormian | Education | ||
| Zeev Tseltner | Jurisprudence | ||
| Itzhak Arnon | Agriculture | ||
| Arie Aroch | Painting | ||
| 1972 | David Ayalon | Humanities | |
| Yocheved Bat-Miriam | Literature | ||
| David Ginsburg | Exact sciences | ||
| Leo Sachs | Life sciences | ||
| Ya'acov Rechter | Architecture | ||
| Avraham Harzfeld | Special contribution to Society and the State | First recipient of the Prize for "Special contribution to Society". | |
| 1973 | Yehuda Even-Shmuel | Jewish studies | |
| Yad Harav Herzog | Rabbinical literature | Organization. Awarded in respect of Complete Israeli Talmud Institute project. | |
| Dorothea Krook-Gilead | Humanities | ||
| Shalom Yosef Shapira ("Shin Shalom") | Literature | ||
| Ben-Zion Dinur | Education | Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1958. | |
| Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt | Social sciences | ||
| Aryeh Dvoretzky | Exact sciences | ||
| Heinrich Mendelssohn | Life sciences | ||
| Richard Stein | Medicine | ||
| Haim Halperin | Agriculture | ||
| Reuven Rubin | Painting | ||
| Hanna Maron | Theatre | ||
| Sara Levi-Tanai | Dance | ||
| Aryeh Elhanani | Architecture | ||
| Pinchas Rosen | Jurisprudence | ||
| Shaul Avigur | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' Remembrance Authority | Organization. Prize awarded for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities (Pinkas HaKehillot) project. Yad Vashem also awarded the Israel Prize in 2003. | ||
| 1974 | Shraga Abramson | Jewish studies | |
| Raphael David Levine | Exact sciences | ||
| Isaac Berenblum | Life sciences | ||
| Yedidia Admon | Music | ||
| Schmuel Hugo Bergmann | Special contribution to Society and the State | Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1954. | |
| Yehoshua Aluf | Special contribution to Society and the State in Sports | First recipient of the prize who was a sportsperson. | |
| 1975 | Shimon Halkin | Literature | |
| Arieh Simon | Education | ||
| Yoel Zussman | Jurisprudence | ||
| Aharon Barak | |||
| Miriam Bernstein-Cohen | Theatre | ||
| Golda Meir | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Helena Kagan | Special contribution to Society and the State in community service | ||
| 1976 | Eliezer Waldenberg | Rabbinical literature | |
| Josef Rom | Technology and Engineering | First recipient of the prize for Engineering or technology. | |
| Gabriel Baer | Arabic linguistics | One of the first two recipients of the prize for Arabic linguistics. | |
| Ezra Mani | |||
| Mordechai (Moti) Kirschenbaum | Radio, Television and Cinema | ||
| Simcha Holzberg | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Ezra Korine | |||
| Rivka Guber | |||
| Yakov Maimon | |||
| 1977 | Raphael Mahler | History of the Jewish people | |
| Menahem Stern | |||
| Nahman Avigad | Land of Israel studies | First recipient of the prize for the study or Knowledge of the "Land of Israel". | |
| David Amiran | Geography | First recipient of the prize specifically for geography. | |
| Shmuel Avitzur | Cultural research | ||
| Zvi Avidov | Agriculture | ||
| Jacob Ephrat | |||
| Elisheva Cohen | Design | One of first two recipients of the prize specifically for Design. | |
| Yona Fischer | Design | ||
| Dani Karavan | Sculpture | ||
| Esther Levit | Special contribution to work | ||
| Avraham Yaakov | |||
| Avraham Klier | Special contribution to industry | ||
| 1978 | Nachum Guttman | Children's literature | |
| Anda Pinkerfeld Amir | |||
| Levin Kipnis | |||
| Avraham Even-Shoshan | Hebrew language | ||
| Haim Baruch Rosen | Linguistics | First recipient of the prize specifically for linguistics. | |
| Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman | Social sciences | ||
| Nathan J. Saltz | Medicine | ||
| Gary Bertini | Music | ||
| Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Moshe Zvi Neria | |||
| 1979 | Isaiah Tishbi | Jewish studies | |
| Menachem Elon | Hebrew law | ||
| Baruch Ben-Yehuda | Education | ||
| Yitzchak Raphael Halevi Etzion | |||
| Yokhanan (Hans) Lindner | Natural sciences | ||
| Orna Porat | Theatre | ||
| Raphael Klatchkin | Theatre | ||
| Tal Brody | Special contribution to Society and the State in Sports | ||
| Yosef Yekutieli | |||
| 1980 | David Flusser | History of the Jewish people | |
| Jacob Katz | |||
| Haim Cohn | Jurisprudence | ||
| Chaim Leib Pekeris | Physics | First recipient of the prize specifically for physics. | |
| Pinchas Litbinovsky | Painting | ||
| Anna Ticho | |||
| Yosl Bergner | |||
| Yad LaBanim (in Petah Tikva) | Special contribution to Society and the State in the activity of perpetuating the memory of Israel's (fallen) sons (and daughters) | Organization. Award also noted its founder Baruch Oren. | |
| Baruch Oren | Noted in the award to Yad LaBanim (in Petah Tikva). | ||
| Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel | Special contribution to Society and the State for the environment | Organization. Award also noted Amotz Zahavi, Azaria Alon and Yoav Sagi. | |
| Amotz Zahavi | Noted in the award to the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. | ||
| Azaria Alon[3] | |||
| Yoav Sagi | |||
| 1981 | Abraham Sofer (Shrieber) | Rabbinical literature | |
| Joram Lindenstrauss | Mathematics | One of first two recipients of the prize specifically for mathematics. | |
| Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro | Mathematics | ||
| Meir Jacob Kister | Arabic Linguistics and Middle Eastern studies | ||
| Gurit Kadman | culture of Dance | ||
| Kvutza Degania Alef | Special contribution to Society and the State in social | Organization | |
| Recha Freier | Special contribution to Society and the State in the service of well-being, community and youth | ||
| 1982 | Joshua Jortner | Chemistry | First recipient to receive the prize specifically for chemistry. |
| David Benvenisti | Acquisition of knowledge and love of the Land of Israel | ||
| Zev Vilnay | Acquisition of knowledge and love of the Land of Israel | ||
| Amir Gilboa | Hebrew poetry | ||
| Yehuda Amichai | Hebrew poetry | ||
| Roberto Bachi | Demographics | The only recipient to date of the prize for demographics. | |
| Avraham Yaski | Architecture | ||
| Ruth Amiran | Land of Israel studies | ||
| Haim Gvati | Special contribution to Society and the State in work and industry | ||
| 1983 | Saul Friedlander | History | One of first two recipients of the prize specifically for history. |
| Aron Saltman | History | ||
| Aharon Appelfeld | Literature | ||
| Naomi Shemer | Hebrew song (lyrics and melody) | ||
| Moshe Wilensky | Hebrew song (melody) | ||
| Haim Hefer | Hebrew song (lyrics) | ||
| Zerach Warhaftig | Special contribution to Society and the State for the advancement of Hebrew law | ||
| Shmuel Rodensky | Lifetime achievement | ||
| 1984 | Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz | Children's literature | |
| Moshe (Max) Jammer | History of science | ||
| Aron (Alfred) Bondi | Agriculture | ||
| Shlomo Ravikovitch | Agriculture | ||
| Shmuel Rodansky | Theatre | ||
| Nahal - Noar Halutzi Lohem (Fighting Pioneer Youth) | Special contribution to Society and the State | Organization | |
| Development Towns in Israel project | |||
| 1985 | Abraham Sutzkever | Yiddish Literature | The only recipient to date of the prize specifically for Yiddish Literature. |
| Joshua Blau | Linguistics and Hebrew language | ||
| Henry E. Neufeld | Medicine | ||
| Baruch Padeh | |||
| Yad Ben Zvi | Middle Eastern Jewish Literature | Organization | |
| Israel Television in Arabic | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| 1986 | Yeshayahu Avrech | Opinion journalism | |
| Shalom Rosenfeld | |||
| Michael Evenari | Lifework in desert studies | ||
| Yoel De Malach | |||
| Ulpan Akiva | Lifework in Education | Organization. Prize awarded jointly with Shulamith Katznelson. | |
| Shulamith Katznelson | Jointly awarded with Ulpan Akiva. | ||
| HaKfar HaYarok | Organization. Prize awarded jointly with Gershon Zak | ||
| Gershon Zak | Jointly awarded with HaKfar HaYarok | ||
| Batya Lichansky | Lfework in Sculpture (Land of Israel) | ||
| Yechiel Shemi | |||
| Yona Sayid | Lifetime achievement | ||
| Eldin Khatukai | |||
| 1987 | Alex Bein | Zionist historiography | The only recipient to date of the prize specifically for Zionist historiography. |
| Ezra Zion Melamed | Biblical interpretation and Rabbinical literature | ||
| Menahem Yaari | Economics | First recipient of the prize for economics. | |
| Ovadia Harari | Engineering and Technology | ||
| Miriam Zohar | Acting | ||
| Lea Koenig | |||
| Makram Khoury | First Israeli Arab recipient of the prize | ||
| 1988 | Moshe Goshen-Gottstein | Jewish studies | |
| Adin Steinsaltz | |||
| Natan Goldblum | Life sciences | ||
| Haim Gouri | Hebrew poetry | ||
| Moshe Shamir | Hebrew Literature | ||
| Sacha (Alexander) Argov | Hebrew song | ||
| Shoshana Damari | |||
| Arie "Lova" Eliav | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Reuben Hecht | |||
| Teddy Kollek | |||
| 1989 | Shmuel Werses | Hebrew Literature | |
| Israel Yeivin | study of the Hebrew language | ||
| Haim Harari | Exact sciences | ||
| Yakir Aharonov | |||
| Elihu Katz | Social sciences | His wife, Ruth Katz, received the Israel Prize in Musicology in 2012. | |
| Wingate Institute | Sports | Organization. One of the first two recipients of the prize specifically for sports. | |
| Ian Froman | Sports | One of first two recipients of the prize specifically for sports. | |
| Ya'akov Hazan | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Bethsabee de Rothschild | |||
| Israel Exploration Society | Organization | ||
| 1990 | Meir Weiss | Jewish studies | |
| Nathan Spiegel | Humanities | ||
| Zvi Yavetz | |||
| Moshe Altbauer | |||
| Moshe Prywes | Life sciences | ||
| Meir Wilchek | |||
| Alexander Levitzki | Family relationship: Son of recipient Jacob Levitski (1953, Exact sciences). | ||
| Yehezkel Streichman | Painting | ||
| Amin Tarif | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Raanan Weitz | |||
| Israel Polack | |||
| 1991 | Haim Beinart | Jewish studies | |
| Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan | Land of Israel studies | ||
| Moshe Landau | Law | ||
| Daniel Friedmann | |||
| Elhanan Helpman | Economics | ||
| Shmuel Agmon | Exact sciences | ||
| Dov Frohman | |||
| Devorah Bertonov | Stage arts | Family relationship: Daughter of recipient Yehoshua Bertonov (1959, Theatre). | |
| Yossi Yadin | |||
| Miriam Ben-Porat | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Stef Wertheimer | |||
| Yeshivat Hesder | Organization | ||
| Zubin Mehta | special prize awarded to non-Israeli | Special award in recognition of Mehta's devotion to Israel and to the IPO. | |
| 1992 | Shaul Yisraeli | Jewish studies | |
| Yehuda Kiel | |||
| Daniel Sperber | |||
| Moshe Lissak | Social sciences | ||
| David Navon | |||
| Reuven Feuerstein | |||
| David Erlich | |||
| Yitzhak Wahl | Life sciences | ||
| Emile Habibi | Arabic Literature | First recipient of the prize for Arabic Literature. | |
| Avoth Yeshurun | Hebrew poetry | ||
| 1993 | Dan Miron | Hebrew Literature | |
| Gershon Shaked | |||
| Moshe Bar-Asher | Hebrew language and Jewish languages | ||
| Gideon Goldenberg | Hebrew language and general linguistics | ||
| Yehoshua Arieli | History | ||
| Hava Lazarus-Yafeh | |||
| Michael Confino | |||
| Yehoshafat Harkabi | Political science | First recipient of the prize specifically for political science. | |
| Hillel Furstenberg | Exact sciences | ||
| Shlomo Alexander | |||
| Jacob Ziv | |||
| Ram Loevy | Communications, Radio and Television | ||
| Yaacov Farkas (“Ze’ev”) | Communications, journalism | ||
| 1994 | Moshe Greenberg | Bible | One of the first two recipients to receive the prize for Biblical studies. |
| Moshe Weinfeld | |||
| Haim Zalman Dimitrovsky | Talmud | ||
| Eliezer Schweid | Jewish thought | ||
| Shneur Zalman Feller | Law | ||
| Robert John (Israel) Aumann | Economics | ||
| Michael Bruno | |||
| Avram Hershko | Biochemistry | One of the first two recipients to receive the prize specifically for biochemistry. | |
| Nathan Sharon | Family relationship: Brother of recipient Shmuel Shtrikman (2001, physics). One of the first two recipients to receive the prize specifically for biochemistry. | ||
| Eliahu Swirski | Agriculture | ||
| Hanoch Avenary | Music | ||
| Yaakov Orland | Hebrew song | ||
| Arie Shapira | composition | ||
| Yad Sarah | Special contribution to Society and the State | Organization | |
| Neot Kedumim | Organization. Prize awarded jointly with Noga HaReuveni. | ||
| Noga HaReuveni | Jointly awarded with the staff of Neot Kedumim. | ||
| 1995 | Claire Epstein[4] | Archaeology | First recipient of the prize for archaeology. |
| Dov Nir | Geography | ||
| Amos Funkenstein | Jewish history | ||
| Yehuda Amir | Psychology | First recipient of the prize specifically for psychology. | |
| Rina Shapira | Education | ||
| Israel Dostrovsky | Exact sciences | ||
| Michael O. Rabin | Computer sciences | First recipient of the prize for computer sciences. | |
| Nathan Zach | Hebrew poetry | ||
| A. B. Yehoshua (Avraham B. Yehoshua) | Hebrew Literature | ||
| Lea Nikel | Painting | ||
| Menashe Kadishman | Sculpture | ||
| David Resnick | Architecture | ||
| Yitzhak Ben-Aharon | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Ada Sereni | |||
| 1996 | Yehuda Ratzaby | Jewish languages | |
| Chone Shmeruk | |||
| Shimon Sandbank | Translation of Literature and poems to Hebrew | First recipient of the prize specifically for translation. | |
| Shlomo Avineri | Political science | ||
| Moshe Barash | History of art | First recipient of the prize specifically for history of art. | |
| Moshe Piamenta | Middle Eastern studies | ||
| Meir Sternberg | general Literature | ||
| Ilan Chet | Agriculture | ||
| Yehezkel Stein | Medicine | ||
| Nisim Aloni | Stage arts – dramatics | ||
| Moshe Efrati | Stage arts – dance | ||
| Arieh Navon | Stage arts – theatrical scenery | ||
| Marcel-Jacques Dubois | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Meir Shamgar | |||
| 1997 | Yaakov Sussmann | Talmudic studies | |
| Joseph Dan | Jewish thought | ||
| Shemaryahu Talmon | Biblical studies | ||
| Yehoshua Bacharach | Rabbinical literature | ||
| Hayim David HaLevi | Rabbinical literature | ||
| Izhak Englard | Law | ||
| Yitzhak Zamir | Law | ||
| Ben-Zion Orgad | Music | ||
| Abel Ehrlich | |||
| Andre Hajdu | |||
| Haim Yavin | Communications | One of the first two recipients of the prize for communications. | |
| David Rubinger | |||
| Uzia Galil | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Israel Tal | |||
| Avraham Elimelech Firer | |||
| 1998 | Yehuda Bauer | History of the Jewish people | |
| Moshe Gil | Land of Israel | ||
| Trude Dothan | Archaeology | ||
| Yona Rosenfeld | Social work | ||
| Arye Levy | Education | ||
| Emanuel Marx | Sociology | ||
| Yehudit Birk | Agriculture | ||
| Rami Rahamimoff | Medical science | ||
| Saharon Shelah | Mathematics | ||
| Dan Shechtman | Physics | ||
| Dahlia Ravikovitch | original Poetry | ||
| Amos Oz | Literature | ||
| Dan Tsur | Architecture | Jointly awarded with Lipa Yahalom. | |
| Lipa Yahalom | Jointly awarded with Dan Tsur. | ||
| Dan Reisinger | Design | ||
| Hassia Levy-Agron | Stage arts | ||
| Yehudit Arnon | |||
| Yossi Banai | |||
| Yafa Yarkoni | Hebrew song | ||
| Ehud Manor | |||
| Sara Stern-Katan | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Shlomo Hillel | |||
| Haim Yisraeli | |||
| 1999 | Moshe Idel | Jewish thought | |
| Aaron Mirski | Hebrew Literature | ||
| Menahem Zevi Kaddari | Hebrew language | ||
| Menachem Banitt | Jewish languages | ||
| Mordechai Breuer | original Rabbinical literature | ||
| Avraham Steinberg | original Rabbinical literature | ||
| Myriam Yardeni | General history | ||
| Shmuel Moreh | Middle Eastern studies | ||
| Bezalel Narkiss | History of art | ||
| Yehoshua Ben-Arieh | Geography | ||
| Arie Shachar | |||
| Michel Revel | Medicine | ||
| Yigal Cohen | Agriculture | ||
| Haim (Howard) Cedar | Biology | First recipient to receive the prize specifically for biology. | |
| Menahem Golan | Cinema | One of the first two recipients of the prize for Cinema. | |
| David Perlov | |||
| Yehoshua Rozin | Sports | ||
| Esther Roth-Shahamorov | |||
| Rebecca Bergman | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Jeshajahu Weinberg | |||
| Bracha Qafih (Kapach) | Family relationship: Wife of recipient Yosef Qafih (1969, Jewish studies). The only husband and wife to have both received the Israel Prize. | ||
| 2000 | Menahem Haran | Biblical studies | |
| Avraham Goldberg | Talmudic studies | ||
| Yonah Frenkel | |||
| Hillel M. Daleski | study of Literature | ||
| Harel Fisch | |||
| Gad Ben Ami Tsarfati | Linguistics | ||
| Shaul Shaked | |||
| Yirmiyahu Yovel | Philosophy | ||
| Asa Kasher | Philosophy | ||
| Raphael Mechoulam | Chemistry | ||
| Yosef Zinger | Engineering and Technology | ||
| Amir Pnueli | Computer sciences | ||
| Amalia Kahana-Carmon | original Hebrew Literature | ||
| Meir Wieseltier | Literature and Poetry | ||
| Moshe Kupferman | Painting | ||
| Michael Gross | Painting and Sculpture | ||
| Micha Bar-Am | Photography | ||
| Shulamit Aloni | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Aryeh Karol | |||
| Hagashash Hachiver | Members comprise Gavriel (Gavri) Banai, Yeshayahu (Shaike) Levi and Yisrael (Poli) Poliakov. | ||
| Gavriel (Gavri) Banai | Awarded as a member of Hagashash Hachiver. | ||
| Yeshayahu (Shaike) Levi | |||
| Yisrael (Poli) Poliakov | |||
| 2001 | Aviezer Ravitzky | Jewish thought | |
| Gavriel Salomon | Education | ||
| Ya'akov Rand | |||
| Ruth Ben Yisrael | Law | ||
| Yehoshua Weissman | |||
| Marcel Elyakim | Medicine | ||
| Ruth Arnon | |||
| Beracha Ramon | |||
| Yoseph Imry | Physics | ||
| Shmuel Shtrikman | Family relationship: Brother of recipient Nathan Sharon (1994, biochemistry). | ||
| Zvi Avni | Music | ||
| Yehezkel Braun | |||
| Herzl Shmueli | |||
| Baruch Hagai | Sports | ||
| Abba Eban | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Mordechai Ben Porat | |||
| Yitzhak Shamir | |||
| 2002 | Asher Koriat | Psychology | |
| Moshe Brawer | Geography | ||
| Menashe Harel | Knowledge of the Land of Israel | ||
| Shmuel Safrai | |||
| Avraham Biran | Archaeology | ||
| Jacob A. Frenkel | Economics | ||
| Ariel Rubinstein | |||
| Abraham Haim Halevy | Agriculture | Family relationship: Grandson of recipient Yosef Zvi HaLevy (1958, Rabbinical literature). | |
| Itamar Willner | Chemistry | ||
| Ada Yonath | |||
| Ram Karmi | Architecture | Family relationships: Son of recipient Dov Karmi (1957, Architecture) and brother of recipient Ada Karmi-Melamede (2007, Architecture). | |
| David Tartakover | Design | ||
| Dov Yudovsky | Media | ||
| Nahum Rakover | Jewish thought | ||
| Eli Hurvitz | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Ephraim Kishon | |||
| Jewish National Fund | Organization | ||
| 2003 | Israel Ta-Shma | Talmud studies | |
| Avraham Grossman | Jewish history | ||
| Shulamit Shahar | General history | ||
| Bilha Manheim | Sociology | ||
| Charles S. (Yehoshayahu) Liebman | Government studies | ||
| Menahem Amir | Criminology | One of the first two recipients of the prize for criminology. | |
| Shlomo Giora Shoham | |||
| Aaron Ciechanover | Biology | ||
| Avinoam Libai | Engineering | ||
| Zvi Ben-Avraham | Earth sciences | ||
| Yosef Bar Yosef | Theatre | ||
| Zaharira Harifai | |||
| Yehudit Hendel | Literature | ||
| Aharon Megged | |||
| Aharon Amir | Translation | ||
| Geula Cohen | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Meir Amit | |||
| Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority | Organization. Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1973, for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities (Pinkas HaKehillot) project. | ||
| 2004 | Sarah Yefet | Biblical studies | |
| Menahem Brinker | Literature | ||
| Dov Noy | |||
| Avraham Doron | Social work | ||
| Ziva Amishai-Maisels | History of art | ||
| Aharon Razin | Biochemistry | ||
| Joseph Bernstein | Mathematics | ||
| David Harel | Computer sciences | ||
| Ester Samuel-Cahn | Statistics | ||
| Yigal Tumarkin | Sculpture | ||
| Gila Almagor-Agmon | Cinema | ||
| Gil Aldema | Hebrew song | ||
| Yehoram Gaon | |||
| Yitzchak Dovid Grossman | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Lia van Leer | |||
| Moshe Schnitzer | |||
| 2005 | Ben-Ami Sharpstein | Philosophy | |
| Miriam Erez | Management | ||
| Yehezkel Dror | |||
| Aharon Dotan | Hebrew language and Linguistics | ||
| Olga Kapeliuk | Linguistics | ||
| Ya'akov Landau | Middle Eastern studies | ||
| Sasson Somekh | |||
| Rena Zeitzov | Medicine | ||
| Shaul Feldman | |||
| Jacob Bekenstein | Physics | ||
| Alex Livak | Photography | ||
| Ohad Naharin | Dance | ||
| Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach | Literature | ||
| Israel Pinkas | Poetry | ||
| Shabtai Teveth | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Yisrael Meir Lau | |||
| Cameri Theatre | Organization | ||
| 2006 | Gerald Blidstein | Jewish philosophy | |
| Haim Adler | Education | ||
| Miriam Ben-Peretz | |||
| Ruth Lapidot | Law | ||
| Amnon Rubinstein | |||
| Nahum Keidar | Agriculture | ||
| Zvi Rappoport | Chemistry | ||
| Pnina Salzman | Music | ||
| Mendi Rodan | Music | ||
| Ya'akov Hodorov | Sports | ||
| Ralph Klein | |||
| Dvora Omer | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Al Schwimmer | |||
| Israeli Andalusian Orchestra | Organization | ||
| 2007 | Elisha Efrat | Geography | |
| Amnon Cohen | Knowledge of the Land of Israel | ||
| Shalom H. Schwartz | Psychology | ||
| Nissan Liviatan | Economics | ||
| Zvi Selinger | Biology | ||
| Zvi Hashin | Engineering | ||
| Yaacov Yaar | Architecture | ||
| Ada Karmi-Melamede | Family relationships: Daughter of recipient Dov Karmi (1957, Architecture) and sister of recipient Ram Karmi (2002, Architecture). | ||
| Yarom Vardimon | Design | ||
| Nahum Barnea | Communications | ||
| The Responsa Project (Project Hashut) | Rabbinical literature | Organization | |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| The Gevatron | Folk singers group | ||
| Dov Lautman | |||
| Alice Shalvi | |||
| 2008 | David Weiss Halivni | Talmudic studies | |
| Anita Shapira | History | ||
| Benjamin Isaac | |||
| Sammy Smooha | Sociology | ||
| Zeev Sternhell | Political science | ||
| Moshe Oren | Biochemistry | ||
| Noga Alon | Mathematics | ||
| Adi Shamir | Computer sciences | ||
| Pinchas Cohen Gan | Painting | ||
| Rene Yerushalmi | Theatre | ||
| Nissan Nativ | Posthumous receipt of Prize.[5] | ||
| Ida Fink | Literature | ||
| Tuvya Ruebner | Hebrew poetry | ||
| Nili Mirsky | Hebrew translation | ||
| Jewish Agency | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | Organization | |
| Manufacturers Association of Israel | |||
| Youth Movements Council | |||
| Ezer Mizion | |||
| Perach | |||
| Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) | Organization. Joint award to three Israeli women's organization, WIZO, Na'amat and Emunah. | ||
| Na'amat | |||
| Emunah (National Religious Women's Movement) | |||
| 2009 | Emanuel Tov | Biblical studies | |
| Israel Levin | Literature | ||
| Reuven Tsur | |||
| Zahava Solomon | Social work | ||
| Mordechai Rotenberg | |||
| Amihai Mazar | Archaeology | ||
| Zvi Laron | Medicine | ||
| Itamar Procaccia | Physics | ||
| Micha Ullman | Sculpture | ||
| Yehuda (Judd) Neeman | Cinema | ||
| Nachum (Nahtche) Heiman | Hebrew song | ||
| Dov Seltzer | |||
| Israel Democracy Institute | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | Organization | |
| Ruth Rasnic | |||
| Mordechai Shani | |||
| 2010 | Avishai Margalit | Philosophy | |
| Hanoch Bartov | Literature | ||
| Aryeh Sivan | Poetry | ||
| Abraham Tal | Hebrew Linguistics | ||
| Arye Levin | General Linguistics | ||
| Moshe Adad | criminology | ||
| Yair Aharoni | administrative science | ||
| Abraham Nitzan | Chemistry | ||
| Yehoshua Kolodny | Earth sciences | ||
| Jonathan Gressel | Agriculture | ||
| Peter Mirom | Photography | ||
| Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater | Dance | Organization | |
| Aharon Yadlin | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Yardena Cohen | |||
| Kamal Mansour | |||
| ILAN - Israel Foundation for Handicapped Children | Organization | ||
| 2011 | Michael Schwarz | Jewish thought | |
| Yosef Shiloh | Life sciences | ||
| Ruth Gavison | Legal research | ||
| Pnina Klein | Education | ||
| David Harari | Engineering | ||
| Ya'acov Dorchin | Visual arts | ||
| Noam Sheriff | The study of music | Members of the selection Committee – Betty Olivero who was selected by N. Sheriff for the E.M.E.T. Prize in 2015 | |
| Shimon Mizrahi | Sports | ||
| Hulda Gurevitch | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Eli Alaluf | |||
| 2012 | David Kazhdan | Mathematics and Computer sciences | |
| Shlomo Bentin | Psychology | ||
| David Milstein | Chemistry and Physics | ||
| Ruth Katz | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Dalia Cohen | |||
| Azaria Alon | |||
| Haim Drukman[6] | Education | ||
| Yoav Benjamini | Statistics | ||
| Nathan Shaham | Hebrew Literature and poetry | ||
| Ya'akov Ahimeir | communications | ||
| 2013 | Gideon Dagan | earth science | |
| Nathan Nelson | Life Sciences | ||
| Yosef Kaplan | History of the Jewish people | ||
| Chava Turniansky | Jewish language and Literature | ||
| Adam Mazor | Architecture | ||
| Yoram Bilu | Sociology and Anthropology | ||
| Nola Chelton | Stage arts | ||
| Eliyahu Hacohen | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Ron Nachman | |||
| 2014 | Shamma Y. Friedman | Talmud | |
| Mordechai Segev | Physics and Chemistry | ||
| Yaacov Katan | Plant pathology and entomology | ||
| Irad Malkin | History | ||
| Aharon Lichtenstein | Jewish Literature | ||
| Marta Weinstock-Rosin | Medicine | ||
| Michal Na'aman | Visual arts | ||
| Haim Levy | Management | ||
| Avinoam Naor | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Adina Bar-Shalom | |||
| 2015 | Chaim Topol | ||
| Esther Herlitz | |||
| David Gurfinkel | Cinema | ||
| Erez Biton | Hebrew Literature and poetry | ||
| Shimon Ullman | Mathematics and Computer science | ||
| David Weisburd | Social work and Criminology | ||
| Harold Zvi Schiffrin | East Asian studies | ||
| Shmuel Ahituv | Biblical studies | ||
| Zelig Eshhar | Life sciences | ||
| 2016 | Meir Lahav | Chemistry & Physics | |
| Leslie Leiserowitz | |||
| Edit Doron | Linguistics | ||
| Nurit Hirsh | Hebrew song | ||
| Eli Sadan | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Doron Almog | |||
| Yohanan Friedmann | Near Eastern studies | ||
| Eviatar Nevo | Life sciences | ||
| David Shulman | Religious studies and Philosophy | ||
| Hadas Efrat | Stage arts | ||
| Yossi Katz | Geography, Archeology, and Land of Israel studies | ||
| 2017 | Ágnes Keleti | Sports | |
| Tzvika Levy | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| David Beeri | |||
| Yosef Yarden | Life sciences | ||
| Arie Vardi | Music | ||
| Malka Margalit | Education | ||
| Yehuda Liebes | Jewish thought | ||
| Uri Shaked | Engineering | ||
| 2018 | David Grossman | Literature | |
| Shlomo Havlin | Physics | ||
| Sergiu Hart | Economics | ||
| Alexander Lubotzky | Mathematics and Computer Science | ||
| Miriam Peretz | Lifetime Achievement & Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| 2019 | Amnon Ben-Tor | Archaeology | |
| Naomi Polani | Theater and Dance | ||
| Dan Yakir[7] | Environmental sciences, geology and atmospheric sciences | ||
| 2020 | Joseph Klafter | Chemistry and Physics | |
| Avishay Braverman | Lifetime Achievement | ||
| 2021 | Nitza Ben-Dov | Hebrew Literature | |
| Michal Bat-Adam | Film Art | ||
| Oded Goldreich | Mathematics & Computer Sciences | ||
| Eli Keshet | Life Sciences | ||
| Ben-Ami Shillony | Far Eastern Studies | ||
| Nurit Zarchi | Literature | ||
| Joseph Ciechanover | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| 2022 | Moussa B.H. Youdim | Life Sciences | |
| Yemima Ben-Menahem | Philosophy Research | ||
| Ruth Berman | Linguistic Research | ||
| Avihu Medina | Israeli Music | ||
| Yoram Palti | Entrepreneurship | ||
| Oded Kotler | Theatre | ||
| Shimon Shamir | Middle Eastern Studies | ||
| Izi Sheratzki | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Joshua Zak | Physics | ||
| Maryuma Klein | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| 2023 | Amnon Shashua | Special contribution to Society and the State | |
| Yoram Dinstein | Legal research | ||
| Emanuel Peled | Chemistry and Chemical engineering | ||
| Amal Nasser el-Din | Special contribution to Society and the State | ||
| Rachel Haber | Special contribution to Society and the State |
