The Sokolov Award, also known as Sokolov Prize, is an Israeli journalism award, awarded by the Tel Aviv municipality, in memory of Nahum Sokolow.
The award has been granted since 1956, initially to print journalists and since 1981 to journalists from the electronic media. It is considered the second 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.
Committee of judges The Sokolov Award's statute stipulates that the mayor should appoint a selecting committee of three members (an academy figure, a jurist and a representative of the mayor), who in turn pick the judges on the award committee. The City Council then determines whether to approve the judges. The judges are made up of two senior journalists, two academy figures, and a representative of the municipality.
The prize Winners receive a monetary prize. As of 2007, the prize was 18,000 shekels.
Winners + Winners by year Year Name Notes/awarded for1956David ZakaiYosef YamburBenzion KatzEzriel CarlebachEphraim Talmi1958Yehuda GotthelfYosef HeftmanAryeh NavonEphraim KishonEzra Rivlis1959David LazarUri KeysariHaim ShrerMoshe Sharett-1961Rafael BashanHerzl BergerHaim Gouri1964Michael Bar-Zohar-Yitzhak GruenbaumKuf' Shabtai-1966Ruth BondyHerzl Rosenblum1969Haim Hefer-Isaac Ramba1972Hana Zemer-Baruch Nadal-Ya'akov Rabi-1975Yeshayahu Avrech-Mark GeffenShalom Rosenfeld-Ze'ev Schiff1977Aryeh Disenchick-Haviv Canaan1981Michael AssafNahum BarneaYa'akov Farkash (Ze'ev)1984Haim IsaacYa'akov Erez, Avi Bettelheim, Avraham Tirosh1985Eitan AlmogYossi GoddardZiv YonatanEhud YaariIsrael public channel 1,Israel Army Radio and Kol Yisrael teams1988Gideon GreifEdna Pe'erAvshalom KorDanny RubinsteinNehemia Shtrasler1993Itai AnghelDov Bar-NirDudu DayanYehudith LutzShlomo NakdimonHanna KimGideon RemezShlomo Nizan, Yair Garbuz,Danny Carmen, Tirtzah Eisenberg1998Michael HandelzaltsMishe ZackRafik HalabiTommy LapidCarmela MenasheMoshe NegbiSever PlockerDoron Rosenblum2000Mordechai GilatNatan ZahaviDov YodkovskyYehiel Limor and Rafi MannAmos CarmeliMichal NivEinat Fishbein2002Mordechai NaorAnat Tal Shir and Zadoc YehezkeliRazi BarkaiNakdimon RogelOded Shahar2004Uri AvneryDaniel Ben-SimonEmmanuel HalperinHanoch MarmariRuvik RosenthalMickey RosenthalMuli Shapira2005Ya'akov AhimeirBen ShaniGideon EshetGuy Leshem2006Uzi BenizmanRuth SinaiNissim MishalItai Landsberg2007Shlomi EldarYaron LondonUri KleinRan Resnik2008Aryeh GolanYaron DekelUri Elitzur2009David WitzthumOmri AsenheimZvi BarelYossi Melman2011Igal SarnaVardi KahanaHaim RivlinRaviv Drucker2015Gidi Weitz2017Yoel MarcusRonen BergmanNadav EyalItai Anghel2019Rino TzrorYael DanRoni LinderYosi Verter2021Ohad HemoIfat GlickGideon LevyKarina Shtotland2023Merav ArlozorovShani HazizaGuy PelegShooki Taussig, Oren Persiko, and Itamar B.Z, members of HaAyin HaShevi'it ("the Seventh Eye") editorial team
References
External links List of Sokolow Award recipients (to 2009) on City of Tel Aviv - Yafo website (in Hebrew)