# Sokolov Award

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Israeli journalism prize

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Sokolov Award Awarded for Outstanding journalism Country Israel Presented by Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo First award 1956; 70 years ago (1956)

The **Sokolov Award**, also known as **Sokolov Prize**, is an Israeli journalism award, awarded by the [Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv) municipality, in memory of [Nahum Sokolow](/source/Nahum_Sokolow).[1]

The award has been granted since 1956, initially to print journalists and since 1981 to journalists from the electronic media. It is considered[*[by whom?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] the second most prestigious award for Israeli journalism, second only to the [Israel Prize](/source/Israel_Prize) for Communications.

The prize is awarded annually, in close proximity to Nahum Sokolow's birthday (ה' בשבט, [Hebrew calendar](/source/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 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 Ronen Bergman Nadav Eyal Itai Anghel 2019 Rino Tzror Yael Dan Roni Linder Yosi Verter 2021 Ohad Hemo Ifat Glick Gideon Levy Karina Shtotland 2023 Merav Arlozorov Shani Haziza Guy Peleg Shooki Taussig, Oren Persiko, and Itamar B.Z, members of HaAyin HaShevi'it ("the Seventh Eye") editorial team

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Haaretz Journalists Awarded Israel's Most Prestigious Journalism Prize"](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2015-12-28/ty-article/.premium/haaretzs-amos-harel-gidi-weitz-win-sokolow-prize/0000017f-f509-d47e-a37f-fd3d43980000). *Haaretz*. Retrieved 2022-11-30.

## External links

- [List of Sokolow Award recipients (to 2009) on City of Tel Aviv - Yafo website (in Hebrew)](https://web.archive.org/web/20071217143252/http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Hebrew/_MultimediaServer/Documents/12516778.pdf)

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