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Dan David Prize

Academic Bar Kribus is the only Israeli to win one of the nine Dan David academic research prizes in June 2025 (Credit: Yael Tsur)
June 11, 2025, 10:07 am
Dan David prize goes to 9 historians, archaeologists and filmmakers
The $300,000 award helps early and mid-career scholars who research the past, as many university departments are threatened with closure and budgets are slashed or eliminated
By Jessica Steinberg
American molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, left, and UMass Chair in Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine, Victor Ambros, in undated pictures. (Joshua Touster and UMass via AP)
October 7, 2024, 3:01 pm
Americans Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun win Nobel Prize in medicine for microRNA discovery
Nobel Assembly says duo’s discovery is ‘fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function’; Ruvkun is Jewish; Ambros’s father endured forced labor by the Nazis
By AP and ToI Staff
A Tel Aviv University building on campus. (Tel Aviv University)
March 1, 2023, 3:57 am
Prestigious Dan David Prize names 9 innovative historians as winners
Tel Aviv University award goes to scholars researching array of historical subjects, including dust in ancient dental plaque, interfaith rifts after Holocaust
By AP
Workers lug a capital, the top of a column, in Palmyra, Syria, sometime between 1920 and 1933. How artifacts like this made their way into museums is part of the research of Mirjam Brusius, one of nine winners of the 2022 Dan David prize. (Matson Collection/American Colony Jerusalem, via Library of Congress)
March 2, 2022, 7:54 pm
Nine history scholars win revamped Dan David award, now field’s largest prize
Academics, curators and other types of historians studying everything from museum storage to environmental history win $300,000 from Tel Aviv-based foundation
By Jessica Steinberg
Philanthropist Dan David, for whom the Dan David Prize is named, and which now is considered the largest history prize in the world (Courtesy Dan David Foundation)
September 15, 2021, 10:46 am
Dan David prize becomes largest history award in world
Headquartered at Tel Aviv University, endowment will give 9 scholars $300,000 apiece for achievements in study of human history
By Jessica Steinberg
Naomi Wolf appears on Fox News, April 19, 2021. (Screenshot)
April 21, 2021, 1:20 am
Conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf: Fauci ‘doesn’t work for us,’ got $1m from Israel
Anti-vaccine activist tells Fox News that US health chief is not working in interest of America, misconstrues award he received from Tel Aviv University
By Ben Sales
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, January 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
February 15, 2021, 7:58 pm
Dr. Anthony Fauci wins Israel’s prestigious $1m. Dan David Prize for 2021
America’s top official on the coronavirus pandemic recognized by Tel Aviv University foundation for ‘extraordinary contribution to humanity’
By Laurie Kellman
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (NYU)
February 12, 2020, 11:12 pm
Scholar who helped establish Polish Jewish museum wins Dan David Prize
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett honored alongside Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III
By AP
President and Rector of the Central European University, CEU, Michael Ignatieff, speaks during a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, on May 30, 2017.
February 7, 2019, 5:53 pm
Canadian author, Reporters Without Borders win Israeli prize
Watchdog group and writer Michael Ignatieff awarded Dan David Prize for ‘defending democracy’ amid authoritarian wave
By AP
Screen capture of author Jamaica Kincaid who in was named as a winner of the Dan David Prize in February 2017. (screen capture: Chicago Humanities Festival/YouTube)
February 7, 2017, 11:26 pm
Jamaica Kincaid among winners of Israeli foundation prize
Antiguan-American author honored with Tel Aviv University’s Dan David award for being an ‘important and influential writer’
By AP
Melanie Takefman
August 16, 2016, 1:29 pm
Melanie Takefman
Get over the boycott
BDS is wrong; instead of demonizing Israel, work from within to eliminate discrimination and the occupation
Catherine Hall speaking at the Colonial Legacy Conference at Utrecht University on June 21, 2013. (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 26, 2016, 1:39 am
Cash prize refused by UK historian to fund TAU researchers of all backgrounds
Catherine Hall cited Palestinian conflict in turning down award and $300,000; now money will go to fund studies that can ‘contribute to mutual dialogue’
By ToI Staff
Catherine Hall speaking at the Colonial Legacy Conference at Utrecht University on June 21, 2013. (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 22, 2016, 10:03 pm
UK historian declines Israeli prize, citing conflict with Palestinians
Prof. Catherine Hall of UCL says she doesn’t wish to accept award after discussions on regional situation
By ToI Staff
Paul Alivisatos (Courtesy)
February 12, 2016, 3:17 pm
Poverty activists, nanotech pioneers picked for $1 million prize
9 people, including historians, chosen as winners of annual Dan David Awards given at Tel Aviv University
By JTA
Jimmy Wales. (photo credit: CC BY Jol Ito, Flickr)
May 19, 2015, 5:12 am
Wikipedia founder supports Israel, but keeps site neutral
Visiting Tel Aviv to get prize for role in ‘information revolution,’ Jimmy Wales says he aims for facts about Israeli-Palestinian conflict to overwhelm bias
By Ben Sales
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