Yakir Yerushalayim
Yakir Yerushalayim (Hebrew: יַקִּיר יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; English: Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) is an annual citizenship prize in Jerusalem, Israel, inaugarated in 1967.
The prize is awarded annually by the municipality of the City of Jerusalem to one or more residents of the city who have contributed to the cultural and educational life of the city in some outstanding way. [1] Prize recipients must be over 70 years old. They are selected by a five-panel committee appointed by the mayor, which reviews the candidates and selects a long-time resident of Jerusalem whose work on behalf of the city or life story is an inspiration to others.[1] The award ceremony is held on Yom Yerushalayim.[1]
Recipients
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| Year | Name | Description and Comments |
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| 1967 | Ben-Zion Dinur | educator, historian and Israeli Government minister |
| 1967 | Samuel Hugo Bergmann | Jewish philosopher |
| 1967 | Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai | Bible scholar, an author, and linguist |
| 1967 | Shlomo Yosef Zevin | eminent Orthodox rabbi |
| 1968 | Yitzhak Baer | historian and an expert in medieval Spanish Jewish history |
| 1968 | Ludwig Blum[2] | Jerusalem painter |
| 1968 | Berl Locker | Zionist activist and Isrraeli politician |
| 1968 | Benjamin Mazar | historian and archaeologist |
| 1968 | Rachel Shazar (née Katznelson) | political figure, wife of Zalman Shazar, the third President of Israel |
| 1968 | Miriam Yalan-Shteklis | Children's author |
| 1969 | David Benvenisti | historian and geographer |
| 1969 | Gershom Scholem | Jewish philosopher and historian |
| 1970 | Simon Halkin | poet and novelist |
| 1970 | Pinchas Litvinovsky | artist |
| 1970 | Anna Ticho | artist |
| 1974 | Mordecai Ardon | artist |
| 1974 | Zev Vilnay | geographer |
| 1977 | Marc Chagall | artist |
| 1980 | Louis Isaac Rabinowitz | deputy mayor of Jerusalem, rabbi and philologist |
| 1981 | Leo Picard | geologist and an expert in the field of hydrology |
| 1982 | Walter Frankl[3] | botanist |
| 1984 | Nahman Avigad | archaeologistt |
| 1984 | Nathan J. Saltz | University professor and surgeon |
| 1984 | Reuven Sheri | Israeli politician |
| 1988 | Elisheva Cohen[4] | Israel Museum curator |
| 1989 | Marcel-Jacques Dubois | Roman Catholic theologian and professor of religion at Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 1989 | Joshua Prawer | historian |
| 1989 | Zerach Warhaftig | Israeli lawyer and politician |
| 1990 | Israel Eldad (Scheib) | former Zionist political activist and Revisionist Zionist philosopher |
| 1991 | Yaakov Arnon | Israeli politician |
| 1991 | Reuven Feuerstein[5] | psychologist and director of the International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential |
| 1992 | Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz | Children's author |
| 1995 | Colette Béatrice Aboulker-Muscat | natural physician |
| 1995 | Zehava Malkiel | activist for the International Council of Jewish Women |
| 1995 | Josef Tal | composer |
| 1996 | Avraham Biran | archaeologist and excavator of Tel Dan |
| 1997 | Martin Kieselstein[6] | doctor, assistance to the elderly of Jerusalem |
| 1997 | Jacob Sheskin | Professor at Hadassah Hospital, head of the Hansen Hospital in Jerusalem |
| 2002 | Yechiel Grebelsky[7]
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pioneer of Jerusalem stone industry |
| 2002 | Meier Schwarz | Professor em. for plant phisiology and director of the Synagogue Memorial |
| 2004 | Miriam Ben-Porat | former Supreme Court judge and former State Comptroller |
| 2004 | Netiva Ben Yehuda | author, editor, and former soldier of the Palmach |
| 2006 | Robert (Israel) Aumann | Nobel Prize winning mathematician |
| 2006 | Emanuel Zisman | Israeli politician and former ambassador |
| 2007 | Geulah Cohen | Israeli politician and journalist |
| 2008 | Yehuda Bauer | historian and Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 2010 | Nahum Rakover | Professor emiritus of Bar-Ilan University and former Deputy Attorney General |