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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Genesis Prize Foundation

Argentinian President Javier Milei visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on February 6, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 15, 2025, 2:01 pm
Argentina’s Milei wins ‘Jewish Nobel’ for Israel support, in break with tradition
South American president, who says he plans to convert to Judaism after leaving office, becomes first non-Jew and first head of state awarded $1 million Genesis Prize
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Families of the Israelis kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza march towards Jerusalem from the site of the Re'im music festival massacre, in southern Israel, February 28, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90).
February 28, 2024, 11:35 pm
This year’s Genesis Prize awarded to groups aiding hostage families
$1 million prize will go to Hostages and Missing Families Forum, as well as others providing services to relatives
By AP and ToI Staff
File: Genesis Prize Foundation Co-Founder Stan Polovets attends the 'Genesis Generation Challenge' at Bloomberg Philanthropies on April 28, 2015 in New York City. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images via AFP)
September 17, 2023, 4:48 am
Genesis Prize co-founder accused of drugging, sexually assaulting woman in 2021
Unnamed plaintiff sues American-Jewish businessman Stan Polovets for allegedly drugging her on date, then assaulting her at apartment; his lawyer and Genesis issue denials
By Michael Horovitz
Left to right: German Khan (government.ru), Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images via JTA), and Petr Aven (Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon/Getty Images via JTA)
March 18, 2022, 10:41 pm
3 Russian Jewish oligarchs step down from board of Genesis Group due to sanctions
Jewish philanthropy that trio helped found announces their departure, lauds their record of backing Jewish causes; group has pledged $10 million for humanitarian relief in Ukraine
By Asaf Shalev
Russian businessman Roman Abramovich looks on, as he follows Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's press conference after Russia was announced being the host for the 2018 soccer World Cup in Zurich, Switzerland, December 2, 2010. (AP/Anja Niedringhaus)
March 14, 2022, 8:27 pm
Not much use to Putin anymore, ‘toxic’ oligarchs in Israel come under scrutiny
Tycoons ‘shocked’ by scale of sanctions, years of reputation-building gone, experts say; 2018 estimate said 30-40 Russia-linked oligarchs had taken Israeli citizenship or residency
By Ricky Ben-David
Left to right: Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images via JTA), Boris Mints (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for World Chess Championship via JTA), Moshe Kantor (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images via JTA), Roman Abramovich (Ian Walton/Getty Images via JTA).
March 2, 2022, 11:51 am
Sanctions highlight money flow from Russian Jewish billionaires to Jewish nonprofits
Targeted oligarchs include prominent Jewish philanthropists, whose giving is vital to the organizations they support but may get ensnared as West bids to isolate Putin over Ukraine
By Asaf Shalev
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks during a ceremony in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Oct. 12, 2021. (Giannis Papanikos/AP)
January 19, 2022, 9:06 am
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla awarded $1 million Genesis Prize for 2022
Foundation cites Jewish executive’s leadership, willingness to take risks in order to produce vaccine as quickly as possible; will donate money to Holocaust education
By ToI Staff
Clockwise from top left; Albert Bourla (AFP), Sacha Baron Cohen (AP), Diane von Furstenberg (AP), Serge Klarsfeld (AFP), Scarlett Johansson (AP) and Yuval Noah Harari (Courtesy)
October 11, 2021, 3:11 pm
Pfizer’s Bourla, Nazi-hunter Klarsfeld on shortlist for Genesis Prize
Sacha Baron Cohen, Scarlett Johansson, Diane von Furstenberg and Yuval Noah Harari also in the running for $1 million award, traditionally donated by winner to nonprofits
By ToI Staff
From left to right: Former Supreme Court Judges Miriam Naor and Esther Hayut; co-founder and chairman of Genesis Prize Foundation Stan Polovets; Supreme Court Justice and Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and former presidents of Israeli Supreme Court Aaron Barak and Dorit Beinich, at the Genesis Award ceremony in Tel Aviv, July 4, 2018. (Eran Lamm/Lens Productions)
August 20, 2021, 2:44 am
Grant in RBG’s honor funds report on gender gap among Jewish leaders
Survey, which received money as part of Genesis Prize won by the late US Supreme Court justice, finds relatively few women heading Jewish groups, calls to boost numbers
By Asaf Shalev
The 2020 Genesis Prize is awarded at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 24, 2020 (Mark Neyman/GPO)
December 24, 2020, 8:09 pm
Genesis Prize gives award to 10 Israeli firms helping combat COVID-19
Natan Sharansky, recipient of the $1 million prize in 2019, funded competition of tech companies with ‘most promising’ innovations to fight the pandemic
By Shoshanna Solomon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the Genesis Prize ceremony, at the Jerusalem theater on June 20, 2019. (Flash90)
January 27, 2020, 2:51 pm
Controversy-hit Genesis Prize distances itself from prime minister
Statement says joint decision made after ‘incorrect’ interpretation that prize is political; announcement comes 2 years after Natalie Portman refused to accept award from Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Natan Sharansky (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 10, 2019, 6:15 am
‘Jewish hero’ Natan Sharansky wins Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize
The former Soviet dissident, turned Israeli politician and two-term Jewish Agency chief, will donate his $1 million prize, address rising anti-Semitism in acceptance speech
By ToI Staff
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attends at a cornerstone ceremony for the Magen David Adom's William H. Bloomberg Jerusalem Station, named after his late father in Jerusalem, in this February 1, 2007 file photo. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
November 27, 2019, 3:49 am
Will Michael Bloomberg’s Jewishness help or hinder his White House run?
The blunt billionaire and former mayor of New York depicts himself as the triple threat needed to take down Trump. Really?
By Ron Kampeas
Israelis in Tel Aviv react after watching the Beresheet spacecraft fail to land safely on the moon on April 11, 2019. (Amir Levy/Getty Images)
May 13, 2019, 12:55 am
Genesis Prize Foundation grants $1 million toward Beresheet 2 spacecraft
While admitting decision deviates from traditional once-a-year-philanthropy, organization says support for second attempt at moon landing represents fund’s goal of inspiring Jews
By Marcy Oster
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft arrives for the NFL football fall meetings in New York, October 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
February 23, 2019, 3:23 am
Robert Kraft prostitute scandal another PR headache for the ‘Jewish Nobel’ prize
Last year’s Genesis Prize laureate, Natalie Portman, refused to attend award ceremony because of objections to Netanyahu’s policies
By Josefin Dolsten
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