The Guardian of Zion Award is an annual award given since 1997 to individuals who have been supportive of the State of Israel. It is awarded at the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University, where the prize recipient gives the keynote address.
Year Recipient Nationality Profession Speech 1997 Elie Wiesel United States Professional writerWinner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1986) 1998 Herman Wouk United States Professional writer and 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner 1999 A.M. Rosenthal United States Former New York Times editorFormer New York Daily News columnist 2000 Sir Martin Gilbert United Kingdom Historian and writer 2001 Cynthia Ozick United States Professional writer 2002 Charles Krauthammer United States The Washington Post columnist 2003 Ruth Roskies Wisse United States Yiddish professor of Harvard University 2004 Arthur Cohn Switzerland Filmmaker and writer 2005 William Safire United States Author, journalist and speechwriter1978 Pulitzer Prize winner 2006 Daniel Pipes United States Author and historian 2007Norman PodhoretzUnited StatesAuthor, columnist 2008David Be'eri, Mordechai Eliav, Rabbi Yehuda MalyIsrael 2009Caroline GlickIsraelJournalistCaroline Glick Receives ‘Guardian Of Zion’ Award 2010Malcolm HoenleinUnited StatesExecutive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Dore Gold Israel 2012 Israel Antiquities Authority Israel 2013 James S. Snyder Israel 2017 John R. Bolton United States National Security Advisor 2018 Yisrael Meir Lau Israel 2019 Natan Sharansky Israel 2022 David M. Friedman United States United States Ambassador to Israel
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