Guardian of Zion Award


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.
YearRecipientNationalityProfessionSpeech
1997Elie WieselUnited StatesProfessional writer
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
1998Herman WoukUnited StatesProfessional writer and 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner
1999A.M. RosenthalUnited StatesFormer New York Times editor
Former New York Daily News columnist
2000Sir Martin GilbertUnited KingdomHistorian and writer
2001Cynthia OzickUnited StatesProfessional writer
2002Charles KrauthammerUnited StatesThe Washington Post columnist
2003Ruth Roskies WisseUnited StatesYiddish professor of Harvard University
2004Arthur CohnSwitzerlandFilmmaker and writer
2005William SafireUnited StatesAuthor, journalist and speechwriter
1978 Pulitzer Prize winner
2006Daniel PipesUnited StatesAuthor and historian
2007Norman PodhoretzUnited StatesAuthor, columnist
2008David Be'eri, Mordechai Eliav, Rabbi Yehuda MalyIsrael
2009Caroline GlickIsraelJournalist
2010Malcolm HoenleinUnited StatesExecutive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Dore GoldIsrael
2012Israel Antiquities AuthorityIsrael
2013James S. SnyderIsrael
2017John R. BoltonUnited StatesNational Security Advisor
2018Yisrael Meir LauIsrael