Sokolov Award

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|awarded_for = Outstanding journalism

|presenter = Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo

|country = Israel

|year = {{start date and age|1956}}

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The Sokolov Award, also known as Sokolov Prize, is an Israeli journalism award, awarded by the Tel Aviv municipality, in memory of Nahum Sokolow.{{Cite news |title=Haaretz Journalists Awarded Israel's Most Prestigious Journalism Prize |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=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 |access-date=2022-11-30}}

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|date=October 2024}} 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

Year ! Name ! Notes/awarded for
class="wikitable" \|+ Winners by year
rowspan="5"\|1956	David Zakai
\|Yosef Yambur
\|Benzion Katz
\|Ezriel Carlebach
\|Ephraim Talmi
rowspan="5"\|1958	Yehuda Gotthelf
\|Yosef Heftman
\|Aryeh Navon
\|Ephraim Kishon
\|Ezra Rivlis
rowspan="4"\|1959	David Lazar
\|Uri Keysari
\|Haim Shrer
\|Moshe Sharett\|
rowspan="3"\|1961	Rafael Bashan
\|Herzl Berger
\|Haim Gouri
rowspan="3"\|1964	Michael Bar-Zohar\|
\|Yitzhak Gruenbaum
\|Kuf' Shabtai\|
rowspan="2"\|1966	Ruth Bondy
\|Herzl Rosenblum
rowspan="2"\|1969	Haim Hefer\|
\|Isaac Ramba
rowspan="3"\|1972	Hana Zemer\|
\|Baruch Nadal\|
\|Ya'akov Rabi\|
rowspan="4"\|1975	Yeshayahu Avrech\|
\|Mark Geffen
\|Shalom Rosenfeld\|
\|Ze'ev Schiff
rowspan="2"\|1977	Aryeh Disenchick\|
\|Haviv Canaan
rowspan="3"\|1981	Michael Assaf
\|Nahum Barnea
\|Ya'akov Farkash (Ze'ev)
rowspan="2"\|1984	Haim Isaac
\|Ya'akov Erez, Avi Bettelheim, Avraham Tirosh
rowspan="5"\|1985	Eitan Almog
\|Yossi Goddard
\|Ziv Yonatan
\|Ehud Yaari
\|Israel public channel 1, Israel Army Radio and Kol Yisrael teams
rowspan="5"\|1988	Gideon Greif
\|Edna Pe'er
\|Avshalom Kor
\|Danny Rubinstein
\|Nehemia Shtrasler
rowspan="8"\|1993	Itai Anghel
\|Dov Bar-Nir
\|Dudu Dayan
\|Yehudith Lutz
\|Shlomo Nakdimon
\|Hanna Kim
\|Gideon Remez
\|Shlomo Nizan, Yair Garbuz, Danny Carmen, Tirtzah Eisenberg
rowspan="8"\|1998	Michael Handelzalts
\|Mishe Zack
\|Rafik Halabi
\|Tommy Lapid
\|Carmela Menashe
\|Moshe Negbi
\|Sever Plocker
\|Doron Rosenblum
rowspan="7"\|2000	Mordechai Gilat
\|Natan Zahavi
\|Dov Yodkovsky
\|Yehiel Limor and Rafi Mann
\|Amos Carmeli
\|Michal Niv
\|Einat Fishbein
rowspan="5"\|2002	Mordechai Naor
\|Anat Tal Shir and Zadoc Yehezkeli
\|Razi Barkai
\|Nakdimon Rogel
\|Oded Shahar
rowspan="7"\|2004	Uri Avnery
\|Daniel Ben-Simon
\|Emmanuel Halperin
\|Hanoch Marmari
\|Ruvik Rosenthal
\|Mickey Rosenthal
\|Muli Shapira
rowspan="4"\|2005	Ya'akov Ahimeir
\|Ben Shani
\|Gideon Eshet
\|Guy Leshem
rowspan="4"\|2006	Uzi Benizman
\|Ruth Sinai
\|Nissim Mishal
\|Itai Landsberg
rowspan="4"\|2007	Shlomi Eldar
\|Yaron London
\|Uri Klein
\|Ran Resnik
rowspan="3"\|2008	Aryeh Golan
\|Yaron Dekel
\|Uri Elitzur
rowspan="4"\|2009	David Witzthum
\|Omri Asenheim
\|Zvi Barel
\|Yossi Melman
rowspan="4"\|2011	Igal Sarna
\|Vardi Kahana
\|Haim Rivlin
\|Raviv Drucker
2015 \|Gidi Weitz \|
rowspan="4" \|2017 \|Yoel Marcus \|
Ronen Bergman \|
Nadav Eyal \|
Itai Anghel \|
rowspan="4" \|2019 \|Rino Tzror \|
Yael Dan \|
Roni Linder \|
Yosi Verter \|
rowspan="4" \|2021 \|Ohad Hemo \|
Ifat Glick \|
Gideon Levy \|
Karina Shtotland \|
rowspan="4" \|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

External links

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

Category:Awards by the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo

Category:Israeli journalism awards

Category:Awards established in 1956

Category:Lists of Israeli award winners

Category:1956 establishments in Israel