Sokolov Award
The Sokolov Award, also known as Sokolov Prize, is an Israeli journalism award, awarded by the Tel Aviv municipality, in memory of Nahum Sokolow.[1]
| Sokolov Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding journalism |
| Country | Israel |
| Presented by | Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo |
| First awarded | 1956 |
The award has been granted since 1956, initially to outstanding print journalists and since 1981 to journalists from the electronic media. It is considered the most prestigious award for Israeli Journalism, second only to the Israel Prize for Communications.
The prize is awarded annually, in close proximity to Nahum Sokolow's birthday (ה' בשבט, Hebrew calendar), or the anniversary of his death (י"ב באייר, Hebrew calendar).
Objectives
The prize is awarded to encourage journalistic excellence and reward outstanding achievements in investigative journalism.
Committee of Judges
The Sokolov Award's statute stipulates that the mayor shall appoint a selecting committee, consisting of three members, for the purpose of picking the Judges on the award committee. The selecting committee shall include an academy figure, a jurist and a representative of the mayor. The mayor then shall bring the make-up of the selecting committee to the approval of the city council. The selecting committee shall compose the Committee of Judges that will include two senior journalists, two academy figures, and a representative of the municipality. Usually, the make-up of the Committee of Judges who selects the winners of the printed media is different from those who determine the winners of the electronic media.
The Prize
Winners receive a monetary prize. As of 2007, the prize was 18,000 shekels.
Winners
| Year | Name | Notes/awarded for |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | David Zakai | |
| Yosef Yambur | ||
| Benzion Katz | ||
| Ezriel Carlebach | ||
| Ephraim Talmi | ||
| 1958 | Yehuda Gotthelf | |
| Yosef Heftman | ||
| Aryeh Navon | ||
| Ephraim Kishon | ||
| Ezra Rivlis | ||
| 1959 | David Lazar | |
| Uri Keysari | ||
| Haim Shrer | ||
| Moshe Sharett | - | |
| 1961 | Rafael Bashan | |
| Herzl Berger | ||
| Haim Gouri | ||
| 1964 | Michael Bar-Zohar | - |
| Yitzhak Gruenbaum | ||
| Kuf' Shabtai | - | |
| 1966 | Ruth Bondy | |
| Herzl Rosenblum | ||
| 1969 | Haim Hefer | - |
| Isaac Ramba | ||
| 1972 | Hana Zemer | - |
| Baruch Nadal | - | |
| Ya'akov Rabi | - | |
| 1975 | Yeshayahu Avrech | - |
| Mark Geffen | ||
| Shalom Rosenfeld | - | |
| Ze'ev Schiff | ||
| 1977 | Aryeh Disenchick | - |
| Haviv Canaan | ||
| 1981 | Michael Assaf | |
| Nahum Barnea | ||
| Ya'akov Farkash (Ze'ev) | ||
| 1984 | Haim Isaac | |
| Ya'akov Erez, Avi Bettelheim, Avraham Tirosh | ||
| 1985 | Eitan Almog | |
| Yossi Goddard | ||
| Ziv Yonatan | ||
| Ehud Yaari | ||
| Israel public channel 1, Israel Army Radio and Kol Yisrael teams | ||
| 1988 | Gideon Greif | |
| Edna Pe'er | ||
| Avshalom Kor | ||
| Danny Rubinstein | ||
| Nehemia Shtrasler | ||
| 1993 | Itai Anghel | |
| Dov Bar-Nir | ||
| Dudu Dayan | ||
| Yehudith Lutz | ||
| Shlomo Nakdimon | ||
| Hanna Kim | ||
| Gideon Remez | ||
| Shlomo Nizan, Yair Garbuz, Danny Carmen, Tirtzah Eisenberg | ||
| 1998 | Michael Handelzalts | |
| Mishe Zack | ||
| Rafik Halabi | ||
| Tommy Lapid | ||
| Carmela Menashe | ||
| Moshe Negbi | ||
| Sever Plocker | ||
| Doron Rosenblum | ||
| 2000 | Mordechai Gilat | |
| Natan Zahavi | ||
| Dov Yodkovsky | ||
| Yehiel Limor and Rafi Mann | ||
| Amos Carmeli | ||
| Michal Niv | ||
| Einat Fishbein | ||
| 2002 | Mordechai Naor | |
| Anat Tal Shir and Zadoc Yehezkeli | ||
| Razi Barkai | ||
| Nakdimon Rogel | ||
| Oded Shahar | ||
| 2004 | Uri Avnery | |
| Daniel Ben-Simon | ||
| Emmanuel Halperin | ||
| Hanoch Marmari | ||
| Ruvik Rosenthal | ||
| Mickey Rosenthal | ||
| Muli Shapira | ||
| 2005 | Ya'akov Ahimeir | |
| Ben Shani | ||
| Gideon Eshet | ||
| Guy Leshem | ||
| 2006 | Uzi Benizman | |
| Ruth Sinai | ||
| Nissim Mishal | ||
| Itai Landsberg | ||
| 2007 | Shlomi Eldar | |
| Yaron London | ||
| Uri Klein | ||
| Ran Resnik | ||
| 2008 | Aryeh Golan | |
| Yaron Dekel | ||
| Uri Elitzur | ||
| 2009 | David Witzthum | |
| Omri Asenheim | ||
| Zvi Barel | ||
| Yossi Melman | ||
| 2011 | Igal Sarna | |
| Vardi Kahana | ||
| Haim Rivlin | ||
| Raviv Drucker | ||
| 2015 | Gidi Weitz | |
| 2017 | Yoel Marcus | Lifetime achievement[2] |
| 2021 | Gideon Levi | Print journalism[3] |