Israel Prize
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The Israel Prize is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor.
Minister of Education Yigal Allon opens the Israel Prize award ceremony on Independence Day 1971, in the presence of President Zalman Shazar and Prime Minister Golda Meir
Israel Prize Award ceremony, April 2023
Abba Eban
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Abba Solomon Meir Eban was a South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.
Israel Prize
…decisions of the committee must be unanimous. The prize money was NIS 75,000 as of 2008. Prominent winners include Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Martin Buber, Abba Eban, A. B. Yehoshua, Israel Aumann, Golda Meir, Amos Oz, Ephraim Kishon, Naomi Shemer, David Benvenisti, Leah Goldberg (posthumously) and Teddy Kollek, and…
Abba Eban in 1970
Israeli UN delegation: (L–R) consul general A. Lourie; counsellor J. Robinson; Eban; Avraham Katznelson; Gideon Rafael (1950)
(L–R) U.S. President Truman, Eban, and Israeli PM Ben-Gurion (1951)
Abba Eban at a press conference (1968)