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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Genesis Prize

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
Barbra Streisand presents the award for best musical at the Tony Awards in New York on June 12, 2016. ( Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
May 2, 2023, 10:42 am
Barbra Streisand to get the ‘Jewish Nobel’
Star will donate $1 million Genesis Prize award to groups protecting environment, promoting women’s health, combating disinformation, aiding people of Ukraine
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Mordechai Bald and his wife, Sara, have distributed thousands of boxes of supplies to Jewish refugees from around Ukraine in Lviv – boxes of empty products that they have given out lie around outside the synagogue. (Jacob Judah/ JTA)
January 12, 2023, 4:13 pm
This year’s ‘Jewish Nobel’ is a group prize, going to Jewish activists in Ukraine
Though the $1 million Genesis Prize typically is awarded to an individual, ‘the extraordinary nature of events’ this year will see it go to NGOs ‘helping to alleviate suffering’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg poses at the 2019 "An Unforgettable Evening" benefiting the Women's Cancer Research Fund, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California, February 28, 2019. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
November 22, 2022, 5:20 pm
Steven Spielberg to receive lifetime achievement prize at Berlin film festival
Renowned Jewish filmmaker, feted by organizers for reinventing cinema as a ‘factory of dreams,’ to be awarded Honorary Golden Bear at 2023 Berlinale in February
By AFP
Left to right: Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images), Petr Aven (Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon/Getty Images ), Moshe Kantor (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images), Roman Abramovich (Ian Walton/Getty Images) All images via JTA.
July 12, 2022, 7:52 am
With their planes grounded, Russia’s Jewish oligarchs see consequences of Putin ties
With no end in sight to invasion of Ukraine, effect of sanctions ripples through world of Jewish philanthropy
By MADELINE FIXLER and Asaf Shalev
Dr Albert Bourla (right) receives the 2022 Genesis Prize from Israel's President Isaac Herzog, left, and Stan Polovets, co-founder and chairman/CEO of the Genesis Prize Foundation. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
June 30, 2022, 12:35 am
Pfizer boss Bourla receives $1M. Genesis Prize, pledges funds for Holocaust museum
Protesting anti-vaxxers greet hundreds of guests at star-studded Jerusalem event; Bourla, son of Greek survivors, to give cash to planned Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki
By Sue Surkes
Director of the Institute of Biological Research, Prof. Shmuel Shapira, at the laboratory in Ness Ziona on August 6, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)
January 19, 2022, 2:48 pm
Ex-head developer of Israeli COVID vaccine slams Genesis Prize for Pfizer CEO
Prof. Shmuel Shapira, former head of the Defense Ministry’s Biological Institute, calls pharma giant’s vaccines ‘mediocre,’ says company only wanted to ‘rake in billions’
By ToI Staff
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
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg speaks as he introduces President Barack Obama at the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
February 11, 2021, 1:00 am
Steven Spielberg wins Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize for films, philanthropy
For 1st time, public involved in choice; director wins $1 million award for contribution to cinema, philanthropic works, efforts to preserve the memory of Holocaust
By Josef Federman
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
Natan Sharansky on June 24, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 4, 2020, 7:57 am
Natan Sharansky to use Genesis Prize proceeds to fight coronavirus
Former prisoner of Zion to donate $1 million award to support organizations in Israel and abroad that work to fight the disease and provide relief to victims
By Josef Federman
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