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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Fictional account of Netanyahu family in America wins Pulitzer Prize

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A satirical novel based on the true story of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s father searching for a job in academia in the United States has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Netanyahus: An Account...
Menachem Kaiser. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.

Menachem Kaiser wins Sami Rohr Prize for nonfiction

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The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, in association with the National Library of Israel, announces Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure as the winner of its 2022 award...
Pastor John Hagee (second from left) receives an award from the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. Photo by Hanna Taieb.

Pastor John Hagee: Begin was ‘heroic’ to bomb Iraqi reactor, Iran ‘even more dangerous’

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One of America’s most powerful Christian supporters of Israel sees clear similarities between Iran’s race towards nuclear weapons and a daring Israeli strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor back in 1981. In a wide-ranging interview,...
A simulated image of the new National Library of Israel Reading Hall. Credit: ©Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects, Executive Architect.

Sami Rohr Prize and National Library of Israel jump-start new literary endeavor

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The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the National Library of Israel have announced a new collaboration to promote their shared vision to further cultivate a vibrant international Jewish literary culture and community. The Sami Rohr...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in 2017. Credit: Phil Pasquini/Shutterstock.

Watchdog group opens voting for third annual ‘anti-Semite of year’ contest

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StopAntisemitism.org is inviting the public to vote in its third annual competition for the world’s “Antisemite of the Year,” a title given to the person who cultivated and propagandized the most hatred against Jews in 2021. Ten...
The graves of first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and his wife, Paula, near their residence in Sde Boker in the Negev Desert. Credit: David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons.

Ben-Gurion Day to honor Jewish state’s founding father, host of Israeli achievers

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will commemorate Ben-Gurion Day on Nov. 10 with an awards ceremony attended by Israeli President Isaac Herzog on the BGU Marcus Family Campus. On the same day, Americans for...
Minister of Aliyah and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata accepts the 2021 Begin Award for Israeli leadership, June 2021. Photo by Naga Malsa.

Aliyah minister earns Begin Heritage Center’s award for Israeli leadership

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Minister of Aliyah and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata was granted the 2021 Begin Award for Israeli leadership. Pnina Tamano-Shata has helped paved the way for many women and was appointed to serve as the first member...
Labor Party member Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin arrives for a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, asking to overturn the decision of the Central Elections Committee to disqualify her candidacy in the March 23 general election, Feb. 24, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Controversial Arab MK wins Israeli TV award

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Labor Party Knesset member Ibtisam Mara’ana, whose nomination for the Knesset sparked a legal battle, was named one of the winners of the Israeli Academy for Film and Television’s 2020 awards on Sunday. The ceremony,...
Rabbi Peter Hyman (left) with the last Jewish recipient of the Bronze Wolf Award, Alain Silberstein of France. Photo by Alan Smason.

Rabbi Peter Hyman receives world’s highest Scouting award

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Rabbi Peter Hyman was announced as the recipient of the Bronze Wolf Award, the highest Scouting award in the world and the only one given by the World Scout Committee, on March 30. It...
Rabbi Shlomo Koves with Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén in 2019. Credit: MTI.

Retired Hungarian gymnast, rabbi among recipients of Hungarian Order of Merit

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Two prominent Hungarian Jewish personalities, Ágnes Keleti and Rabbi Shlomo Koves, were among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Hungarian Order of Merit. The winners were announced on March 15, Hungary’s Independence Day. Gymnast Ágnes...