This is a complete list of recipients of the Israel Prize from the inception of the Prize in 1953.
For each year, the recipients are listed in the order in which the prize was announced.
The chronological list is followed by a list of the recipients in alphabetical order.
By year
1950s
| Name | Field | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Gdalia Alon | Jewish studies (received posthumously) | 1953 |
| Haim Hazaz | literature | 1953 |
| Ya'akov Cohen | literature | 1953 |
| Dina Feitelson-Schur | education | 1953 |
| Mark Dvorzhetski | social science | 1953 |
| Lipman Heilprin | medical science | 1953 |
| Zeev Ben-Zvi | sculpture | 1953 |
| Shimshon Amitsur | exact sciences | 1953 |
| Jacob Levitzki | exact sciences | 1953 |
| Moshe Zvi Segal | Jewish studies | 1954 |
| Schmuel Hugo Bergmann | humanities | 1954 |
| David Shimoni | literature | 1954 |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | literature | 1954 |
| Arthur Biram | education | 1954 |
| Gad Tedeschi | jurisprudence | 1954 |
| Franz Ollendorff | exact sciences | 1954 |
| Michael Zohary | life sciences | 1954 |
| Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer | agriculture | 1954 |
| Ödön Pártos | music | 1954 |
| Ephraim Urbach | Jewish studies | 1955 |
| Isaac Heinemann | Jewish studies | 1955 |
| Zalman Shneur | literature | 1955 |
| Yitzhak Lamdan | literature | 1955 |
| Michael Fekete | exact sciences | 1955 |
| Israel Reichart | life sciences | 1955 |
| Yaakov Ben-Tur | life sciences | 1955 |
| Akiva Vroman | life sciences | 1955 |
| Benjamin Shapira | medical science | 1955 |
| Sara Hestrin-Lerner | medical science | 1955 |
| Netanel Hochberg | agriculture | 1955 |
| Zohara Shatz | painting and sculpture | 1955 |
| Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai | Jewish studies | 1956 |
| Yigael Yadin | Jewish studies | 1956 |
| Yehezkel Abramsky | Rabbinical literature | 1956 |
| Gershon Shufman | literature | 1956 |
| Miriam Yalan-Shteklis | children's literature | 1956 |
| Nechama Leibowitz | education | 1956 |
| Yaakov Talmon | social sciences | 1956 |
| Avraham HaLevi Frankel | exact sciences | 1956 |
| Manfred Aschner | life sciences | 1956 |
| Haim Ernst Wertheimer | medicine | 1956 |
| Hanna Rovina | theatre | 1956 |
| Haim Shirman | Jewish studies | 1957 |
| Yohanan Levi | humanities | 1957 |
| Yaakov Fichman | literature | 1957 |
| Uri Zvi Grinberg | literature | 1957 |
| Paltiel Daykan | jurisprudence | 1957 |
| Siegfried Lehman | education | 1957 |
| Shlomo Hestrin | exact sciences | 1957 |
| David Feingold | exact sciences | 1957 |
| Gad Avigad | exact sciences | 1957 |
| Saul Adler | medicine | 1957 |
| Shmuel Horowitz | agriculture | 1957 |
| Paul Ben-Haim | music | 1957 |
| Reuvein Margolies | Rabbinical literature | 1957 |
| Eliezer Smoli | children's literature | 1957 |
| Dov Carmi | architecture | 1957 |
| Yosef Klausner | Jewish studies | 1958 |
| Ben-Zion Dinur | Jewish studies | 1958 |
| Gershom Scholem | Jewish studies | 1958 |
| Yehezkel Kaufmann | Jewish studies | 1958 |
| Yitzhak Baer | Jewish studies | 1958 |
| Isaac HaLevi Herzog | Rabbinical literature | 1958 |
| Yehuda Leib Maimon | Rabbinical literature | 1958 |
| Yosef Zvi HaLevy | Rabbinical literature | 1958 |
| Martin Buber | humanities | 1958 |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | literature | 1958 |
| Isaac Dov Berkowitz | literature | 1958 |
| Ya'akov Cohen | literature | 1958 |
| Youth Aliyah | education | 1958 |
| Rachel Shazar | social sciences | 1958 |
| Yoel (Giulio) Racah | exact sciences | 1958 |
| Marcus Reiner | exact sciences | 1958 |
| Leo Picard | life sciences | 1958 |
| Bernhard Zondek | medicine | 1958 |
| Selig Suskin | agriculture | 1958 |
| Bezalel Academy of Art and Design | painting and sculpture | 1958 |
| Habima Theatre | theatre | 1958 |
| Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | music | 1958 |
| Shlomo Yosef Zevin | Rabbinical literature | 1959 |
| Leo Arye Mayer | humanities | 1959 |
| S. Yizhar (Yizhar Smilansky) | literature | 1959 |
| Ezra Fleischer | literature | 1959 |
| Ephraim Katchalski (Ephraim Katzir) | life sciences | 1959 |
| Michael Sela | life sciences | 1959 |
| Hillel (Heinz) Oppenheimer | agriculture | 1959 |
| Joseph Zaritsky | painting | 1959 |
| Yehoshua Bertonov | theatre | 1959 |
1960
| Name | Field | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Abraham Haim Shalit | Jewish studies | 1960 |
| Avraham Arnon | education | 1960 |
| Shabtai Rosen | jurisprudence | 1960 |
| Aaron Maskin | medicine | 1960 |
| Isaac Michaelson | theatre | 1960 |
| Franz Zondheimer | exact sciences | 1960 |
1961
- Shlomo Goren - Rabbinical literature
- Yehezkel Kutscher - humanities
- Yehuda Burla - literature
- Aharon Katzir - life sciences
- Ora Kedem - life sciences
- Jacob Van der Hoeden - agriculture
- Menachem Avidom - music
1962
- Hanoch Yelon - Jewish studies
- Joseph Bentwich - education
- Yitzhak Kanav - social sciences
- Ze'ev Lev - exact sciences
- Zvi Sliternik - medicine
- Arieh Sharon - architecture
1963
- Menachem Mendel Kasher - Rabbinical literature
- Nathan Rotenstreich - humanities
- Eliezer Steinman - literature
- Avraham Fahn - life sciences
- Mordechai Ardon - painting
1964
- Ze'ev Ben-Haim - Jewish studies
- Moshe Zilberg - jurisprudence
- Moshe Rachmilevich - medicine
- Meir Margalit - theatre
1965
- Shlomo Zemach - literature
- Shlomo Dickman - literature
- Karl Frankenstein - education
- Israel Defence Forces - education
- Judith Shoval - social sciences
- Amos De-Shalit - exact sciences
- Igal Talmi - exact sciences
- Shmuel Stoller - agriculture
- Mordechai Seter - music
1966
- Shlomo Morag - Jewish studies
- Yitzhak Arieli - Rabbinical literature
- Hans Jakob Polotsky - humanities
- Moshe Rudolf Bloch - life sciences
- Alfred Mansfeld - architecture
- Dora Gad - architecture
1967
- Avraham Shlonsky - literature
- Ernst Simon - education
- Benjamin Aktsin - jurisprudence
- Arieh Leo Olitsky - medicine
- Marcel Janco - painting
1968
- Ovadia Hadaya - Rabbinical literature
- Moshe Yechiel Epstein[1] - Rabbinical literature
- Shmuel Yeivin - Jewish studies
- Benjamin Mazar - Jewish studies
- Dov Sadan - Jewish studies
- Shmuel Samborsky - humanities
- Shlomo Pines - humanities
- Avigdor Hameiri - literature
- Natan Alterman - literature
- Yaakov Berman - education
- Alexander Dushkin - education
- Shoshana Persitz - education
- David Horowitz - social sciences
- Shimon Agranat - jurisprudence
- Emanuel Goldberg - exact sciences
- Ernst David Bergmann - life sciences
- Chaim Sheba - medicine
- Hanan Openheimer- agriculture
- Yitzhak Danziger - sculpture
- Yosef Milo - theatre
- Gertrude Kraus - dance
- Benjamin Idelson - architecture
1969
- Yosef Qafih (Kapach) - Jewish studies
- Joshua Prawer - humanities
- Schneor Lipson - life sciences
- Shimon Finkel - theatre
- Yuval Ne'eman - exact sciences (Prize returned in 1992)
1970
- Ovadia Yosef - Rabbinical literature
- Abba Kovner - literature
- Leah Goldberg - literature
- Don Patinkin - social sciences
- Josef Tal - music
- Andre De Vries - medicine
1971
- Saul Lieberman - Jewish studies
- Haim Ormian - education
- Zeev Tseltner - jurisprudence
- Isaac Arnon - agriculture
- Arieh Aroch - painting
1972
- David Ayalon - humanities
- Yocheved Bat-Miriam - literature
- David Ginzburg - exact sciences
- Leo Sachs - life sciences
- Ya'acov Rechter - architecture
- Avraham Herzfeld - special contribution to society and the State
1973
- Yehuda Even-Shmuel - Jewish studies
- Yad Harav Herzog - Rabbinical literature
- Dorothea Krook-Gilead - humanities
- Shalom Yosef Shapira ("Shin Shalom") - literature
- Ben-Zion Dinur - education
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt - social sciences
- Aryeh Dvoretzky - exact sciences
- Heinrich Mendelssohn - life sciences
- Richard Stein - medicine
- Haim Halperin - agriculture
- Reuven Rubin - painting
- Hanna Maron - theatre
- Sara Levi-Tanai - dance
- Aryeh Elhanani - architecture
- Pinchas Rosen - jurisprudence
- Shaul Avigur - special contribution to society and the State
- Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' Remembrance Authority, Encyclopeadia of Jewish Communities (Pinkas HaKehillot) project - special contribution to society and the State
1974
- Shraga Abramson - Jewish studies
- Raphael David Levine - exact sciences
- Isaac Berenblum - life sciences
- Yedidia Admon - music
- Schmuel Hugo Bergmann - special contribution to society and the State
- Yehoshua Aluf - special contribution to society and the State in sports
1975
- Shimon Halkin - literature
- Arieh Simon - education
- Yoel Zussman - jurisprudence
- Aharon Barak - jurisprudence
- Miriam Bernstein-Cohen - theatre
- Golda Meir - special contribution to society and the State
- Helena Kagan - special contribution to society and the State in community service
1976
- Eliezer Waldenberg - Rabbinical literature
- Josef Rom - technology and engineering
- Gabriel Baer - Arabic linguistics
- Ezra Mani - Arabic linguistics
- Mordechai (Moti) Kirschenbaum - radio, television and cinema
- Simcha Holzberg - special contribution to society and the State
- Ezra Korine - special contribution to society and the State
- Rivka Guber - special contribution to society and the State
- Yakov Maimon - special contribution to society and the State
1977
- Raphael Mahler - history of the Jewish people
- Menahem Stern - history of the Jewish people
- Nahman Avigad - Land of Israel studies
- David Amiran - geography
- Shmuel Avitzur - cultural research
- Zvi Avidov - agriculture
- Jacob Ephrat - agriculture
- Elisheva Cohen - design
- Yona Fischer - design
- Dani Karavan - sculpture
- Esther Levit - special contribution to work
- Avraham Yaakov - special contribution to work
- Avraham Klier - special contribution to industry
1978
- Nahum Gutman - children's literature
- Anda Pinkerfeld Amir - children's literature
- Levin Kipnis - children's literature
- Abraham Even-Shoshan - (Hebrew) language
- Haim Baruch Rozen - liguistics
- Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman - social sciences
- Nathan J. Saltz - medicine
- Gary Bertini - music
- Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi - special contribution to society and the State
- Moshe Zvi Neria - special contribution to society and the State
1979
- Isaiah Tishbi - Jewish studies
- Menachem Elon - Hebrew law
- Baruch Ben-Yehuda - education
- Yitzchak Raphael Halevi Etzion - education
- Yokhanan (Hans) Lindner - natural sciences
- Orna Porat - theatre
- Raphael Klatchkin - theatre
- Tal Brody - special contribution to society and the State - sports
- Yosef Yekutieli - special contribution to society and the State - sports
1980
- David Flusser - history of the Jewish People
- Jacob Katz - history of the Jewish People
- Haim Cohen - jurisprudence
- Chaim Leib Peleris - physics
- Pinchas Litbinovsky - painting
- Anna Ticho - painting
- Yosl Bergner - painting
- Yad Levanim in Petah Tikva, with noting its founder Baruch Oren - special contribution to society and the State in the activity of perpetuating the memory of (fallen) sons (and daughters)
- Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, with noting Amotz Zahavi, Azaria Alon and Yoav Sagi - special contribution to society and the State for the environment
1981
- Abraham Sofer (Shrieber) - Rabbinical literature
- Joram Lindenstrauss - mathematics
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro - mathematics
- Meir Jacob Kister - Arabic linguistics and Middle Eastern studies
- Gurit Kadman - culture of dance
- Kvutza Degania Alef - special contribution to society and the State in social - human pioneering
- Recha Freier - special contribution to society and the State in the service of well-being, community and youth
1982
- Joshua Jortner - chemistry
- David Benvenisti - acquisition of knowledge and love of the Land of Israel
- Zev Vilnay - acquisition of knowledge and love of the Land of Israel
- Amir Gilboa - Hebrew poetry
- Yehuda Amichai - Hebrew poetry
- Robearto Bachi - demographics
- Avraham Yaski - architecture
- Ruth Amiran - Land of Israel studies
- Haim Gvati - special contribution to society and the State in work and industry
1983
- Saul Friedländer - history
- Aron Saltman - history
- Aharon Appelfeld - literature
- Naomi Shemer - Hebrew song (lyrics and melody)
- Moshe Wilensky - Hebrew song (melody)
- Haim Hefer - Hebrew song (lyrics)
- Zerach Warhaftig - special contribution to society and the State for the advancement of Hebrew law
1984
- Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz - children's literature
- Moshe (Max) Jammer - history of science
- Aron (Alfred) Bondi - agriculture
- Shlomo Ravikovitch - agriculture
- Shmuel Rodansky - theatre
- Nahal - Noar Halutzi Lohem (Fighting Pioneer Youth) - special contribution to society and the State
- Development Towns in Israel project - special contribution to society and the State
1985
- Abraham Sutzkever - Yiddish literature
- Joshua Blau - linguistics and Hebrew language
- Henry E. Neufeld - medicine
- Baruch Padeh - medicine
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute - Middle Eastern Jewish literature
- Israel Television in Arabic - special contribution to society and the State
1986
- Yishiahu Avrech - opinion journalism
- Shalom Rosenfeld - opinion journalism
- Michael Evenari - lifework in desert research
- Yoel De Melach - lifework in desert research
- Shulamith Katznelson and Ulpan Akiva - lifework in education
- Gersham Zach and HaKfar HaYarok - lifework in education
- Batya Lichansky - lifework in sculpture (Land of Israel)
- Yechiel Shemi - lifework in sculpture (Land of Israel)
- Yona Sayid - lifework for hard work
- Eldin Khatukai - lifework for hard work
1987
- Alex Bein - Zionist historiography
- Ezra Zion Melamed - Biblical interpretation and rabbinical studies
- Menahem Yaari - economics
- Ovadia Harari - engineering and technology
- Miriam Zohar - acting
- Lea Koenig - acting
- Makram Khoury - acting
1988
- Moshe Goshen-Gottstein - Jewish studies
- Adin Steinsaltz - Jewish studies
- Natan Goldblum - life sciences
- Haim Gouri - Hebrew poetry
- Moshe Shamir - Hebrew literature
- Sacha (Alexander) Argov - Hebrew song
- Shoshana Damari - Hebrew song
- Aryeh "Lova" Eliav - special contribution to society and the State
- Reuven Hecht - special contribution to society and the State
- Teddy Kollek - special contribution to society and the State
1989
- Shmuel Werses - Hebrew literature
- Israel Yeivin - study of the Hebrew language
- Haim Harari - exact sciences
- Yakir Aharonov - exact sciences
- Elihu Katz - social sciences
- Wingate Institute - sports
- Ian Froman - sports
- Ya'akov Hazan - special contribution to society and the State
- Bethsabée de Rothschild - special contribution to society and the State
- Israel Exploration Society - special contribution to society and the State
1990
- Meir Weiss - Jewish studies
- Nathan Spiegel - humanities
- Zvi Yavetz - humanities
- Moshe Altbauer - humanities
- Moshe Prywes - life sciences
- Meir Wilchek - life sciences
- Alexander Levitzki - life sciences
- Yehezkel Streichman - painting
- Amin Tarif - special contribution to society and the State
- Raanan Weitz - special contribution to society and the State
- Israel Polack - special contribution to society and the State
1991
- Haim Beinart - Jewish studies
- Noami Feinbrun-Dothan - Land of Israel studies
- Moshe Landau - law
- Daniel Friedmann - law
- Elhanan Helpman - economics
- Shmuel Agmon - exact sciences
- Dov Frohman - exact sciences
- Deborah Bertonoff - stage arts - dance
- Yossi Yadin - stage arts - theatre
- Miriam Ben-Porat - special contribution to society and the State
- Stef Wertheimer - special contribution to society and the State
- Yeshivat Hesder - special contribution to society and the State
- Zubin Mehta - special prize in recognition of devotion to Israel and to the IPO
1992
- Shaul Yisraeli - Jewish studies
- Yehuda Kiel - Jewish studies
- Daniel Sperber - Jewish studies
- Moshe Lissak - social sciences
- David Navon - social sciences
- Reuven Feuerstein - social sciences
- David Erlich - social sciences
- Yitzhak Wahl - life sciences
- Emile Habibi - Arabic literature
- Avoth Yeshurun - Hebrew poetry
1993
- Dan Miron - Hebrew Literature
- Gershon Shaked - Hebrew literature
- Moshe Bar-Asher – Hebrew language and Jewish languages
- Gideon Goldenberg – Hebrew language and general linguistics
- Yehoshua Arieli – history
- Hava Lazarus-Yafeh – history
- Michael Confino – history
- Yehoshafat Harkabi – political science
- Hillel Furstenberg – exact sciences
- Shlomo Alexander – exact sciences
- Jacob Ziv – exact sciences
- Ram Levi – communications, radio and television
- Yaacov Farkas (“Ze’ev”) – communications, journalism
1994
- Moshe Greenberg - Bible
- Moshe Weinfeld - Bible
- Haim Zalman Dimitrovsky - Talmud
- Eliezer Schweid - Jewish thought
- Shneur Zalman Feller - law
- Robert John (Israel) Aumann - economics
- Michael Bruno - economics
- Avram Hershko - biochemistry
- Nathan Sharon - biochemistry
- Eliahu Swirski - agriculture
- Hanoch Avenary - music
- Yaakov Orland - Hebrew song
- Arie Shapira - composition
- Yad Sarah - special contribution to society and the State
- Noga HaReuveni and the staff of Neot Kedumim - special contribution to society and the State
1995
- Claire Epstein - archaeology
- Dov Nir - geography
- Amos Funkenstein - Jewish history
- Yehuda Amir - psychology
- Rina Shapira - education
- Israel Dostrovsky- exact sciences
- Michael O. Rabin - computer science
- Nathan Zach - Hebrew poetry
- A. B. Yehoshua (Avraham B. Yehoshua) - Hebrew literature
- Lea Nikel - painting
- Menashe Kadishman - sculpture
- David Resnick - architecture
- Yitzhak Ben-Aharon - special contribution to society and the State
- Ada Sereni - special contribution to society and the State
1996
- Yehuda Ratzaby - Jewish languages
- Chone Shmeruk - Jewish languages
- Shimon Sandbank - translation to Hebrew of literature and poems
- Shlomo Avineri - political science
- Moshe Barasch - history of art
- Moshe Piamenta - Middle Eastern studies
- Meir Sternberg - general literature
- Ilan Chet - agriculture
- Yehezkel Stein - medicine
- Nissim Aloni - stage arts - dramatics
- Moshe Efrati - stage arts - dance
- Arie Navon - stage arts - stage settings
- Marcel-Jacques Dubois - special contribution to society and the State
- Meir Shamgar - special contribution to society and the State
1997
- Yaakov Sussmann - Talmudic studies
- Joseph Dan - Jewish thought
- Shemaryahu Talmon - Biblical studies
- Yehoshua Bacharach - Rabbinical literature
- Hayim David HaLevi - Rabbinical literature
- Izhak Englard - law
- Yitzhak Zamir - law
- Ben-Zion Orgad - music
- Abel Ehrlich - music
- André Hajdu - music
- Haim Yavin - communications - television
- David Rubinger - communications - photography
- Uzia Galil - special contribution to society and the State
- Israel Tal - special contribution to society and the State
- Avraham Elimelech Firer - special contribution to society and the State
1998
- Yehuda Bauer - history of the Jewish people
- Moshe Gil - Land of Israel
- Trude Dothan - archeology
- Yona Rosenfeld - social work
- Arye Levy - education
- Emanuel Marx - sociology
- Yehudit Birk - agriculture
- Ram Rahamimov - medical science
- Saharon Shelah - mathematics
- Dan Shechtman - physics
- Dahlia Ravikovitch - original poetry
- Amos Oz - literature
- Dan Tsur and Lippa Yahalon - architecture
- Dan Reisinger - design
- Hassia Levy-Agron - stage arts - dance
- Yehudit Arnon - stage arts - dance
- Yossi Banai - stage arts - theatre
- Yafa Yarkoni - Hebrew song
- Ehud Manor - Hebrew song
- Sara Stern-Katan - special contribution to society and the State
- Shlomo Hillel - special contribution to society and the State
- Haim Yisraeli - special contribution to society and the State
1999
- Moshe Idel - Jewish thought
- Aaron Mirski - Hebrew literature
- Menahem Zevi Kaddari - Hebrew language
- Menachem Banitt - Jewish languages
- Mordechai Breuer - original Rabbinical literature
- Avraham Steinberg - original Rabbinical literature
- Myriam Yardeni - general history
- Shmuel Moreh - Middle Eastern studies
- Bezalel Narkiss - history of art
- Yehoshua Ben-Arieh - geography
- Arie Shachar - geography
- Michel Revel - medicine
- Yigal Cohen - agriculture
- Haim (Howard) Cedar - biology
- Menahem Golan - cinema
- David Perlov - cinema
- Joshua Rezin - sports
- Esther Roth-Shahamorov - sports
- Rebecca Bergman - special contribution to society and the State
- Jeshajahu Weinberg - special contribution to society and the State
- Bracha Qafih (Kapach) - special contribution to society and the State
2000
- Menahem Haran - biblical studies
- Avraham Goldberg - Talmudic studies
- Yonah Frenkel - Talmudic studies
- Hillel M. Daleski - study of literature
- Harel Fisch - study of literature
- Gad Ben Ami Tsarfati - linguistics
- Shaul Shaked - linguistics
- Yirmiyahu Yovel - philosophy
- Asa Kasher - philosophy
- Raphael Mechoulam - chemistry
- Yosef Zinger - engineering and technology
- Amir Pnueli - computer sciences
- Amalia Kahana-Carmon - original Hebrew literature
- Meir Wieseltier - writing and poetry
- Moshe Kupferman - painting
- Michael Gross - painting and sculpture
- Micha Bar-Am - photography
- Shulamit Aloni - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Aryeh Karol - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Hagashash Hachiver (Gavriel (Gavri) Banai, Yeshayahu (Shaike) Levi and Yisrael (Poli) Poliakov) - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
2001
- Aviezer Ravitzky - Jewish thought
- Gavriel Salomon - education
- Ya'akov Rand - education
- Ruth Ben Yisrael - law
- Yehoshua Weissman - law
- Marcel Elyakim - medicine
- Ruth Arnon - medicine
- Beracha Ramon - medicine
- Yoseph Imry - physics
- Shmuel Shtrikman - physics
- Zvi Avni - music
- Yehezkel Braun - music
- Herzl Shmueli - music
- Baruch Hagai - sports
- Abba Eban - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Mordechai Ben Porat - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Yitzhak Shamir - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
2002
- Asher Koriat - psychology
- Moshe Barur - geography
- Menashe Harel - knowledge of the Land of Israel
- Shmuel Safrai - knowledge of the Land of Israel
- Avraham Biran - archeology
- Jacob A. Frenkel - economics
- Ariel Rubinstein - economics
- Avraham Halevi - agriculture
- Itamar Willner - chemistry
- Ada Yonath - chemistry
- Ram Carmi - architecture
- David Tartakover - design
- Dov Yudovsky - media
- Nahum Rakover - Jewish thought
- Eli Hurvitz - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Ephraim Kishon - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Jewish National Fund - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
2003
- Israel Ta-Shma - Talmud studies
- Avraham Grossman - Jewish history
- Shulamit Shahar - general history
- Bilha Manheim - sociology
- Charles S. (Yehoshayahu) Liebman - government studies
- Menahem Amir - criminology
- Shlomo Giora Shoham - criminology
- Aaron Ciechanover - biology
- Avinoam Libai - engineering
- Zvi Ben Avraham - Earth sciences
- Yosef Bar Yosef - theatre
- Zaharira Harifai - theatre
- Yehudit Hendel - literature
- Aharon Megged - literature
- Aharon Amir - translation
- Geula Cohen - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Meir Amit - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
2004
- Sarah Yefet - biblical studies
- Menahem Brinker - literature
- Dov Noy - literature
- Avraham Doron - social work
- Ziva Amishay-Meislish - history of art
- Aharon Razin - biochemistry
- Joseph Bernstein - mathematics
- David Harel - computer sciences
- Esther Samuel-Cohen - statistics
- Yigal Tumarkin - sculpture
- Gila Almagor-Agmon - cinema
- Gil Aldema - Hebrew song
- Yehoram Gaon - Hebrew song
- Yitzchak Dovid Grossman - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Lia van Leer - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Moshe Schnitzer - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
2005
- Ben-Ami Sharpstein - philosophy
- Miriam Erez - management
- Yehezkel Dror - management
- Aharon Dotan - Hebrew language and linguistics
- Olga Kapeliuk - linguistics
- Ya'akov Landau - Middle East studies
- Sasson Somekh - Middle East studies
- Rena Zeitzov - medicine
- Shaul Feldman - medicine
- Jacob Bekenstein - physics
- Alex Livak - photography
- Ohad Naharin - dance
- Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach - literature
- Israel Pinkas - poetry
- Shabtai Teveth - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Yisrael Meir Lau - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Cameri Theatre - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
2006
- Ya'akov Blidstein - Jewish philosophy
- Haim Adler - education
- Miriam Ben-Peretz - education
- Ruth Lapidot - law
- Amnon Rubinstein - law
- Nahum Keidar - agriculture
- Zvi Rappoport - chemistry
- Pnina Salzman - music
- Mendi Rodan - music
- Ya'akov Hodorov - sports
- Ralph Klein - sports
- Dvora Omer - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Al Schwimmer - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Israeli Andalusian Orchestra - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
2007
- Elisha Efrat - geography
- Amnon Cohen - knowledge of the Land of Israel
- Shalom H. Schwartz - psychology
- Nissan Liviatan - economics
- Zvi Selinger - biology
- Zvi Hashin - engineering
- Yaacov Yaar - architecture
- Ada Karmi-Melamede - architecture
- Yarom Vardimon - design
- Nahum Barnea - communication
- The Responsa Project (Project Hashut) - Rabbinical literature
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- The Gevatron - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Dov Lautman - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Alice Shalvi - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
2008
- David Weiss Halivni - Talmudic studies
- Anita Shapira - history
- Benjamin Isaac - history
- Sami Samocha - sociology
- Zeev Sternhell - political science
- Moshe Oren - biochemistry
- Noga Alon - mathematics
- Adi Shamir - computer sciences
- Pinchas Cohen Gan - painting
- Rene Yerushalmi - theatre
- Nissan Nativ - theatre (received posthumously[2])
- Ida Fink - literature
- Tuvya Ruebner - Hebrew poetry
- Nili Mirsky - Hebrew translation
- Jewish Agency - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Manufacturers Association of Israel - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Youth Movements Council - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Ezer Mizion - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Perach - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
Three Israeli women's organizations:
- Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Na'amat - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Emunah (National Religious Women's Movement) - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
2009
- Emanuel Tov - biblical studies
- Israel Levin - literature
- Reuven Tsur - literature
- Zahava Solomon - social work
- Amihai Mazar - archaeology
- Zvi Laron - medicine
- Itamar Procaccia - physics
- Micha Ullman - sculpture
- Yehuda (Judd) Neeman - cinema
- Nachum (Nahtche) Heiman - Hebrew song
- Dubi Seltzer - Hebrew song
- Israel Democracy Institute - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Ruth Reznick - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Mordechai Shani - lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
Alphabetical
A
- Yehezkel Abramsky - 1956, Rabbinical literature
- Shraga Abramson - 1974, Jewish studies
- Haim Adler - 2006, education
- Saul Adler - 1957, medicine
- Yedidia Admon - 1974, music
- Gila Almagor-Agmon - 2004, cinema
- Shmuel Agmon - 1991, exact sciences
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon - 1954 and 1958, literature
- Shimon Agranat - 1968, jurisprudence
- Hassia Levy-Agron - 1998, stage arts - dance
- Yakir Aharonov - 1989, exact sciences
- Benjamin Aktsin - 1967, jurisprudence
- Gil Aldema - 2004, Hebrew song
- Shlomo Alexander – 1993, exact sciences
- Gila Almagor-Agmon - 2004, cinema
- Azaria Alon with Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel - 1980, special contribution to society and the State for the environment
- Gdalia Alon - 1953 Jewish studies (received posthumously)
- Noga Alon - 2008, mathematics
- Nissim Aloni - 1996, stage arts - dramatics
- Shulamit Aloni - 2000, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Moshe Altbauer - 1990, humanities
- Natan Alterman - 1968, literature
- Yehoshua Aluf - 1974, special contribution to society and the State in sports
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - 2007, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Yehuda Amichai - 1982, Hebrew poetry
- Aharon Amir - 2003, translation
- Anda Pinkerfeld Amir - 1978, children's literature
- Menahem Amir - 2003, criminology
- Yehuda Amir - 1995, psychology
- David Amiran - 1977, geography
- Ruth Amiran - 1982, Land of Israel studies
- Ziva Amishay-Meislish - 2004, history of art
- Meir Amit - 2003, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Shimshon Amitsur - 1953, exact sciences
- Aharon Appelfeld - 1983, literature
- Mordechai Ardon - 1963, painting
- Sacha (Alexander) Argov - 1988, Hebrew song
- Yehoshua Arieli – 1993, history
- Yitzhak Arieli - 1966, Rabbinical literature
- Avraham Arnon - 1960, education
- Isaac Arnon - 1971, agriculture
- Ruth Arnon - 2001, medicine
- Yehudit Arnon - 1998, stage arts - dance
- Arieh Aroch - 1971, painting
- Manfred Aschner - 1956, life sciences
- Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach - 2005, literature
- Robert John (Israel) Aumann - 1994, economics
- Hanoch Avenary - 1994, music
- Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz - 1984, children's literature
- Menachem Avidom - 1961, music
- Zvi Avidov - 1977, agriculture
- Gad Avigad - 1957, exact sciences
- Nahman Avigad - 1977, Land of Israel studies
- Shaul Avigur - 1973, special contribution to society and the State
- Shlomo Avineri - 1996, political science
- Shmuel Avitzur - 1977, cultural research
- Zvi Avni - 2001, music
- Yishiahu Avrech - 1986, opinion journalism
- David Ayalon - 1972, humanities
B
- Yehoshua Bacharach - 1997, Rabbinical literature
- Robearto Bachi - 1982, demographics
- Gabriel Baer - 1976, Arabic linguistics
- Yitzhak Baer - 1958, Jewish studies
- Gavriel (Gavri) Banai - 2000, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Yossi Banai - 1998, stage arts - theatre
- Menachem Banitt - 1999, Jewish languages
- Aharon Barak - 1975, jurisprudence
- Micha Bar-Am - 2000, photography
- Moshe Barasch - 1996, history of art
- Moshe Bar-Asher – 1993, Hebrew language and Jewish languages
- Nahum Barnea - 2007, communication
- Moshe Barur - 2002, geography
- Yosef Bar Yosef - 2003, theatre
- Yocheved Bat-Miriam - 1972, literature
- Yehuda Bauer - 1998, history of the Jewish people
- Alex Bein - 1987, Zionist historiography
- Haim Beinart - 1991, Jewish studies
- Jacob Bekenstein - 2005, physics
- Yitzhak Ben-Aharon - 1995, special contribution to society and the State
- Yehoshua Ben-Arieh - 1999, geography
- Zvi Ben Avraham - 2003, Earth sciences
- Paul Ben-Haim - 1957, music
- Ze'ev Ben-Haim - 1964, Jewish studies
- Miriam Ben-Peretz - 2006, education
- Miriam Ben-Porat - 1991, special contribution to society and the State
- Mordechai Ben Porat - 2001, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Yaakov Ben-Tur - 1955, life sciences
- Joseph Bentwich - 1962, education
- David Benvenisti - 1982, acquisition of knowledge and love of the Land of Israel
- Baruch Ben-Yehuda - 1979, education
- Ruth Ben Yisrael - 2001, law
- Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi - 1978, special contribution to society and the State
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute - 1885, Middle Eastern Jewish literature
- Zeev Ben-Zvi - 1953, sculpture
- Isaac Berenblum - 1974, life sciences
- Rebecca Bergman - 1999, special contribution to society and the State
- Ernst David Bergmann - 1968, life sciences
- Schmuel Hugo Bergmann - 1954, humanities and 1974, special contribution to society and the State
- Yosl Bergner - 1980, painting
- Isaac Dov Berkowitz - 1958, literature
- Yaakov Berman - 1968, education
- Joseph Bernstein - 2004, mathematics
- Miriam Bernstein-Cohen - theatre
- Gary Bertini - 1978, music
- Deborah Bertonoff - 1991, stage arts - dance
- Yehoshua Bertonov - 1959, theatre
- Bezalel Academy of Art and Design - 1958, painting and sculpture - the fine arts
- Arthur Biram - 1954, education
- Avraham Biran - 2002, archeology
- Yehudit Birk - 1998, agriculture
- Joshua Blau - 1885, linguistics and Hebrew language
- Ya'akov Blidstein - 2006, Jewish philosophy
- Moshe Rudolf Bloch - 1966, life sciences
- Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer - 1954, agriculture
- Aron (Alfred) Bondi - 1984, agriculture
- Yehezkel Braun - 2001, music
- Mordechai Breuer - 1999, original Rabbinical literature
- Menahem Brinker - 2004, literature
- Tal Brody - 1979, special contribution to society and the State - sports
- Michael Bruno - 1994, economics
- Martin Buber - 1958, humanities
- Yehuda Burla - 1961, literature
C
- Cameri Theatre - 2005, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Dov Carmi - 1957, architecture
- Ram Carmi - 2002, architecture
- Amalia Kahana-Carmon - 2000, original Hebrew literature
- Haim (Howard) Cedar - 1999, biology
- Ilan Chet - 1996, agriculture
- Aaron Ciechanover - 2003, biology
- Amnon Cohen - 2007, knowledge of the Land of Israel
- Elisheva Cohen - 1977, design
- Esther Samuel-Cohen - 2004, statistics
- Geula Cohen - 2003, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Haim Cohen - 1980, jurisprudence
- Miriam Bernstein-Cohen - theatre
- Ya'akov Cohen - 1953 and 1958, literature
- Yigal Cohen - 1999, agriculture
- Pinchas Cohen Gan - 2008, painting
- Complete Israeli Talmud Institute, Yad Harav Herzog - 1973, Rabbinical literature
- Michael Confino – 1993, history
D
- Hillel M. Daleski - 2000, study of literature
- Shoshana Damari - 1988, Hebrew song
- Joseph Dan - 1997, Jewish thought
- Yitzhak Danziger - 1968, sculpture
- Paltiel Daykan - 1957, jurisprudence
- Kvutza Degania Alef - 1981, special contribution to society and the State in social-human pioneering
- Yoel De Melach - 1986, lifework in desert research
- Amos De-Shalit - 1965, exact sciences
- Development Towns in Israel project - 1984, special contribution to society and the State
- Andre De Vries - 1970, medicine
- Shlomo Dickman - 1965, literature
- Haim Zalman Dimitrovsky - 1994, Talmud
- Ben-Zion Dinur - 1958, Jewish studies; and 1973, education
- Avraham Doron - 2004, social work
- Israel Dostrovsky- 1995, exact sciences
- Aharon Dotan - 2005, Hebrew language and linguistics
- Noami Feinbrun-Dothan - 1991, Land of Israel studies
- Trude Dothan - 1998, archeology
- Yehezkel Dror - 2005, management
- Marcel-Jacques Dubois - 1996, special contribution to society and the State
- Alexander Dushkin - 1968, education
- Aryeh Dvoretzky - 1973, exact sciences
- Mark Dvorzhetski- 1953, social science
E
- Abba Eban - 2001, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Elisha Efrat - 2007, geography
- Moshe Efrati - 1996, stage arts - dance
- Abel Ehrlich - 1997, music
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt - 1973, social sciences
- Aryeh Elhanani - 1973, architecture
- Aryeh "Lova" Eliav - 1988, special contribution to society and the State
- Menachem Elon - 1979, Hebrew law
- Marcel Elyakim - 2001, medicine
- Izhak Englard - 1997, law
- Emunah (National Religious Women's Movement) - 2008, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Jacob Ephrat - 1977, agriculture
- Claire Epstein - 1995, archaeology
- Moshe Yechiel Epstein[1] - 1968, Rabbinical literature
- Miriam Erez - 2005, management
- David Erlich - 1992, social sciences
- Yitzchak Raphael Halevi Etzion - 1979, education
- Michael Evenari - 1986, lifework in desert research
- Abraham Even-Shoshan - 1978, (Hebrew) language
- Yehuda Even-Shmuel - 1973, Jewish studies
- Ezer Mizion - 2008, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
F
- Avraham Fahn - 1963, natural sciences
- Yaacov Farkas (“Ze’ev”) – 1993, communications, journalism
- Dina Feitelson-Schur - 1953, education
- Noami Feinbrun-Dothan - 1991, Land of Israel studies
- David Feingold - 1957, exact sciences
- Michael Fekete - 1955, exact sciences
- Shaul Feldman - 2005, medicine
- Shneur Zalman Feller - 1994, law
- Reuven Feuerstein - 1992, social sciences
- Yaakov Fichman - 1957, literature
- Ida Fink - 2008, literature
- Shimon Finkel - 1969, theatre
- Avraham Elimelech Firer - 1997, special contribution to society and the State
- Harel Fisch - 2000, study of literature
- Yona Fischer - 1977, design
- Ezra Fleischer - 1959, literature
- David Flusser - 1980, history of the Jewish People
- Avraham HaLevi Frankel - 1956, exact sciences
- Jacob A. Frenkel - 2002, economics
- Karl Frankenstein - 1965, education
- Recha Freier - special contribution to society and the State in the service of well-being, community and youth
- Yonah Frenkel - 2000, Talmudic studies
- Saul Friedländer - 1983, history
- Daniel Friedmann - 1991, law
- Dov Frohman - 1991, exact sciences
- Ian Froman - 1989, sports
- Saul Friedlander - 1983, history
- Amos Funkenstein - 1995, Jewish history
- Hillel Furstenberg – 1993, exact sciences
G
- Dora Gad - 1966, architecture
- Uzia Galil - 1997, special contribution to society and the State
- Pinchas Cohen Gan - 2008, painting
- Yehoram Gaon - 2004, Hebrew song
- The Gevatron - 2007, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Shlomo Goren - 1961, Rabbinical literature
- Moshe Gil - 1998, Land of Israel
- Dorothea Krook-Gilead - 1973, humanities
- Amir Gilboa - 1982, Hebrew poetry
- David Ginzburg - 1972, exact sciences
- Menahem Golan - 1999, cinema
- Avraham Goldberg - 2000, Talmudic studies
- Emanuel Goldberg - 1968, exact sciences
- Leah Goldberg - 1970, literature
- Natan Goldblum - 1988, life sciences
- Gideon Goldenberg – 1993, Hebrew language and general linguistics
- Haim Gouri - 1988, Hebrew poetry
- Moshe Greenberg - 1994, Bible
- Uri Zvi Grinberg - 1957, literature
- Michael Gross - 2000, painting and sculpture
- Avraham Grossman - 2003, Jewish history
- Yitzchak Dovid Grossman - 2004, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Rivka Guber - 1976, special contribution to society and the State
- Nahum Gutman - 1978, children's literature
- Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman - 1978, social sciences
- Moshe Goshen-Gottstein - 1988, Jewish studies
- Haim Gvati - 1982, special contribution to society and the State in work and industry
H
- Emile Habibi - 1992, Arabic literature
- Habima Theatre - 1958, theatre
- Ovadia Hadaya - 1968, Rabbinical literature
- Hagashash Hachiver - 2000, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society
- Baruch Hagai - 2001, sports
- Hagashash Hachiver - 2000, lifetime achievement & special contribution to societyand the State
- André Hajdu - 1997, music
- Avraham Halevi - 2002, agriculture
- Hayim David HaLevi - 1997, Rabbinical literature
- Yosef Zvi HaLevy - 1958, Rabbinical literature
- HaKfar HaYarok with Gersham Zach - 1986, lifework in education
- David Weiss Halivni - 2008, Talmudic studies
- Shimon Halkin - 1975, literature
- Haim Halperin - 1973, agriculture
- Avigdor Hameiri - 1968, literature
- Haim Harari - 1989, exact sciences
- Ovadia Harari - 1987, engineering and technology
- David Harel - 2004, computer sciences
- Menashe Harel - 2002, knowledge of the Land of Israel
- Noga HaReuveni and the staff of Neot Kedumim - 1994, special contribution to society and the State
- Zaharira Harifai - 2003, theatre
- Yehoshafat Harkabi – 1993, political science
- Zvi Hashin - 2007, engineering
- Haim Hazaz - 1953, literature
- Ya'akov Hazan - 1989, special contribution to society and the State
- Menahem Haran - 2000, biblical studies
- Reuven Hecht - 1988, special contribution to society and the State
- Haim Hefer - 1983, Hebrew song (lyrics)
- Lipman Heilprin - 1953, medical science
- Nachum (Nahtche) Heiman - 2009, Hebrew song
- Isaac Heinemann - 1955, Jewish studies
- Elhanan Helpman - 1991, economics
- Yehudit Hendel - 2003, literature
- Avram Hershko - 1994, biochemistry
- Avraham Herzfeld - 1972, special contribution to society and the State
- Isaac HaLevi Herzog - 1958, Rabbinical literature
- Yeshivat Hesder - 1991, special contribution to society and the State
- Shlomo Hestrin - 1957, exact sciences
- Sara Hestrin-Lerner - 1955, medical science
- Shlomo Hillel - 1998, special contribution to society and the State
- Netanel Hochberg - 1955, agriculture
- Ya'akov Hodorov - 2006, sports
- Simcha Holzberg - 1976, special contribution to society and the State
- David Horowitz - 1968, social sciences
- Shmuel Horowitz - 1957, agriculture
- Eli Hurvitz - 2002, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
I
- Moshe Idel - 1999, Jewish thought
- Benjamin Idelson - 1968, architecture
- Benjamin Isaac - 2008, history
- Israel Defence Forces - 1965, education
- Israel Democracy Institute - 2009, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Israel Exploration Society - 1989, special contribution to society and the State
- Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - 1958, music
- Israel Television in Arabic - 1885, special contribution to society and the State
- Israeli Andalusian Orchestra - 2006, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Yoseph Imry - 2001, physics
J
- Moshe (Max) Jammer - 1984, history of science
- Marcel Janco - 1967, painting
- Jewish Agency - 2008, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Jewish National Fund - 2002, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- The "Joint" (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) - 2007, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Joshua Jortner - 1982, chemistry
K
- Menahem Zevi Kaddari - 1999, Hebrew language
- Menashe Kadishman - 1995, sculpture
- Gurit Kadman - 1981, culture of dance
- Helena Kagan - 1975, special contribution to society and the State in community service
- Amalia Kahana-Carmon - 2000, original Hebrew literature
- Yitzhak Kanav - 1962, social sciences
- Bracha Kapach (Qafih) - 1999, special contribution to society and the State
- Yosef Kapach (Qafih) - 1969, Jewish studies
- Olga Kapeliuk - 2005, linguistics
- Dani Karavan - 1977, sculpture
- Ada Karmi-Melamede - 2007, architecture
- Aryeh Karol - 2000, lifetime achievement & special contribution to societyand the State
- Asa Kasher - 2000, philosophy
- Menachem Mendel Kasher - 1963, Rabbinical literature
- Sara Stern-Katan - 1998, special contribution to society and the State
- Elihu Katz - 1989, social sciences
- Jacob Katz - 1980, history of the Jewish People
- Aharon Katzir - 1961, life sciences
- Ephraim Katchalski (Ephraim Katzir) - 1959, natural sciences
- Shulamith Katznelson with Ulpan Akiva - 1986, lifework in education
- Yehezkel Kaufmann - 1958, Jewish studies
- Ora Kedem - 1961, natural sciences
- Nahum Keidar - 2006, agriculture
- Eldin Khatukai - 1986, lifework for hard work
- Makram Khoury - 1987, acting
- Yehuda Kiel - 1992, Jewish studies
- Levin Kipnis - 1978, children's literature
- Mordechai (Moti) Kirschenbaum - 1976, radio, television and cinema
- Ephraim Kishon - 2002, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Meir Jacob Kister - 1981, Arabic linguistics and Middle Eastern studies
- Raphael Klatchkin - 1979, theatre
- Yosef Klausner - 1958, Jewish studies
- Ralph Klein - 2006, sports
- Avraham Klier - 1977, special contribution to industry
- Lea Koenig - 1987, acting
- Teddy Kollek - 1988, special contribution to society and the State
- Asher Koriat - 2002, psychology
- Ezra Korine - 1976, special contribution to society and the State
- Abba Kovner - 1970, literature
- Gertrude Kraus - 1968, dance
- Dorothea Krook-Gilead - 1973, humanities
- Moshe Kupferman - 2000, painting
- Yehezkel Kutscher - 1961, humanities
L
- Yitzhak Lamdan - 1955, literature
- Moshe Landau - 1991, law
- Ya'akov Landau - 2005, Middle East studies
- Ruth Lapidot - 2006, law
- Zvi Laron - 2009, medicine
- Yisrael Meir Lau - 2005, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Dov Lautman - 2007, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Hava Lazarus-Yafeh – 1993, history
- Siegfried Lehman - 1957, education
- Nechama Leibowitz - 1956, education
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz - nominated in 1993, but declined to receive
- Sara Hestrin-Lerner - 1955, medical science
- Ze'ev Lev - 1962, exact sciences
- Ram Levi – 1993, communications, radio and television
- Sara Levi-Tanai - 1973, dance
- Yeshayahu (Shaike) Levi - 2000, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Yohanan Levi - 1957, humanities
- Israel Levin - 2009, literature
- Raphael David Levine - 1974, exact sciences
- Esther Levit - 1977, special contribution to work
- Alexander Levitzki - 1990, life sciences
- Jacob Levitzki - 1953, exact sciences
- Arye Levy - 1998, education
- Hassia Levy-Agron - 1998, stage arts - dance
- Avinoam Libai - 2003, engineering
- Batya Lichansky - 1986, lifework in sculpture (Land of Israel)
- Saul Lieberman - 1971, Jewish studies
- Charles S. (Yehoshayahu) Liebman - 2003, government studies
- Joram Lindenstrauss - 1981, mathematics
- Yokhanan (Hans) Lindner - 1979, life sciences
- Schneor Lipson - 1969, life sciences
- Moshe Lissak - 1992, social sciences
- Pinchas Litbinovsky - 1980, painting
- Alex Livak - 2005, photography
- Nissan Liviatan - 2007, economics
M
- Raphael Mahler - 1977, history of the Jewish people
- Yakov Maimon - 1976, special contribution to society and the State
- Yehuda Leib Maimon - 1958, Rabbinical literature
- Bilha Manheim - 2003, sociology
- Ezra Mani - 1976, Arabic linguistics
- Ehud Manor - 1998, Hebrew song
- Alfred Mansfeld - 1966, architecture
- Manufacturers Association of Israel - 2008, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Meir Margalit - 1964, theatre
- Reuvein Margolies - 1957, Rabbinical literature
- Hanna Maron - 1973, theatre
- Emanuel Marx - 1998, sociology
- Aaron Maskin - 1960, medicine
- Leo Arye Mayer - 1959, humanities
- Amihai Mazar - 2009, archaeology
- Benjamin Mazar - 1968, Jewish studies
- Raphael Mechoulam - 2000, chemistry
- Zubin Mehta - 1991, special prize in recognition of devotion to Israel and to the IPO
- Aharon Megged - 2003, literature
- Golda Meir - 1975, special contribution to society and the State
- Ziva Amishay-Meislish - 2004, history of art
- Yoel De Melach - 1986, lifetime achievement in desert research
- Ezra Zion Melamed - 1987, Biblical interpretation and rabbinical studies
- Ada Karmi-Melamede - 2007, architecture
- Heinrich Mendelssohn - 1973, life sciences
- Isaac Michaelson - 1960, theatre
- Golda Meir - 1975, special contribution to society and the State
- Yosef Milo - 1968, theatre
- Dan Miron - 1993, Hebrew Literature
- Aaron Mirski - 1999, Hebrew literature
- Nili Mirsky - 2008, Hebrew translation
- Shmuel Moreh - 1999, Middle Eastern studies
- Shlomo Morag - 1966, Jewish studies
N
- Na'amat - 2008, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Nahal - Noar Halutzi Lohem (Fighting Pioneer Youth) - 1984, special contribution to society and the State
- Ohad Naharin - 2005, dance
- Bezalel Narkiss - 1999, history of art
- Nissan Nativ - 2008, theatre (received posthumously)
- Arie Navon - 1996, stage arts - stage settings
- David Navon - 1992, social sciences
- Yehuda (Judd) Neeman - 2009, cinema
- Yuval Ne'eman - 1969, exact sciences (although Prize returned in 1992)
- Neot Kedumim - 1994, special contribution to society and the State
- Moshe Zvi Neria - 1978, special contribution to society and the State
- Henry E. Neufeld - 1885, medicine
- Lea Nikel - 1995, painting
- Dov Nir - 1995, geography
- Noar Halutzi Lohem - Nahal (Fighting Pioneer Youth) - 1984, special contribution to society and the State
- Dov Noy - 2004, literature
O
- Franz Ollendorff - 1954, exact sciences
- Dvora Omer - 2006, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Hanan Openheimer- 1968, agriculture
- Hillel (Heinz) Oppenheimer - 1959, agriculture
- Yaakov Orland - 1994, Hebrew song
- Baruch Oren with Yad Levanim in Petah Tikva - 1980, special contribution to society and the State in the activity of perpetuating the memory of (fallen) sons (and daughters)
- Moshe Oren - 2008, biochemistry
- Ben-Zion Orgad - 1997, music
- Haim Ormian - 1971, education
- Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach - 2005, literature
- Amos Oz - 1998, literature
P
- Baruch Padeh - 1885, medicine
- Shoshana Parsitz - 1968, education
- Ödön Pártos - 1954, music
- Don Patinkin - 1970, social sciences
- Chaim Leib Peleris - 1980, physics
- Perach - 2008, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- David Perlov - 1999, cinema
- Shoshana Persitz - 1968, education
- Moshe Piamenta - 1996, Middle Eastern studies
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro - 1981, mathematics
- Leo Picard - 1958, life sciences
- Shlomo Pines - 1968, humanities
- Israel Pinkas - 2005, poetry
- Anda Pinkerfeld Amir - 1978, children's literature
- Amir Pnueli - 2000, computer sciences
- Israel Polack - 1990, special contribution to society and the State
- Yisrael (Poli) Poliakov - 2000, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Hans Jakob Polotsky - 1966, humanities
- Orna Porat - 1979, theatre
- Joshua Prawer - 1969, humanities
- Itamar Procaccia - 2009, physics
- Moshe Prywes - 1990, natural sciences
Q
- Bracha Qafih (Kapach) - 1999, special contribution to society and the State
- Yosef Qafih (Kapach) - 1969, Jewish studies
R
- Michael O. Rabin - 1995, computer science
- Yoel Racah - 1958, exact sciences - physics
- Moshe Rachmilevich - 1964, medicine
- Ram Rahamimov - 1998, medical science
- Nahum Rakover - 2002, Jewish thought
- Beracha Ramon - 2001, medicine
- Ya'akov Rand - 2001, education
- Zvi Rappoport - 2006, chemistry
- Yehuda Ratzaby - 1996, Jewish languages
- Dahlia Ravikovitch - 1998, original poetry
- Shlomo Ravikovitch - 1984, agriculture
- Aviezer Ravitsky - 2001, Jewish thought
- Aharon Razin - 2004, biochemistry
- Ya'acov Rechter - 1972, architecture
- Israel Reichart - 1955, life sciences
- Marcus Reiner - 1958, exact sciences
- Dan Reisinger - 1998, design
- David Resnick - 1995, architecture
- The Responsa Project (Project Hashut) - 2007, Rabbinical literature
- Michel Revel - 1999, medicine
- Joshua Rezin - 1999, sports
- Ruth Reznick - 2009, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Mendi Rodan - 2006, music
- Shmuel Rodansky - 1984, theatre
- Josef Rom - 1976, technology and engineering
- Shabtai Rosen - 1960, jurisprudence
- Shalom Rosenfeld - 1986, opinion journalism
- Yona Rosenfeld - 1998, social work
- Nathan Rotenstreich - 1963, humanities
- Esther Roth-Shahamorov - 1999, sports
- Bethsabée de Rothschild - 1989, special contribution to society and the State
- Hanna Rovina - 1956, theatre
- Haim Baruch Rozen - 1978, liguistics
- Pinchas Rosen - 1973, jurisprudence
- Yehoshua Rozin - 1999, sports
- Reuven Rubin - 1973, painting
- David Rubinger - 1997, communications - photography
- Amnon Rubinstein - 2006, law
- Ariel Rubinstein - 2002, economics
- Tuvya Ruebner - 2008, Hebrew poetry
S
- Leo Sachs - 1972, life sciences
- Dov Sadan - 1968, Jewish studies
- Shmuel Safrai - 2002, knowledge of the Land of Israel
- Gavriel Salomon - 2001, education
- Aron Saltman - 1983, history
- Nathan J. Saltz - 1978, medicine
- Pnina Salzman - 2006, music
- Shmuel Samborsky - 1968, humanities
- Sami Samocha - 2008, sociology
- Esther Samuel-Cohen - 2004, statistics
- Shimon Sandbank - 1996, translation to Hebrew of literature and poems
- Yona Sayid - 1986, lifework for hard work
- Moshe Schnitzer - 2004, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Gershom Scholem - 1958, Jewish studies
- Dina Feitelson-Schur - 1953, education
- Shalom H. Schwartz - 2007, psychology
- Eliezer Schweid - 1994, Jewish thought
- Al Schwimmer - 2006, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Moshe Zvi Segal - 1954, Jewish studies
- Yoav Sagi with Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel - 1980, special contribution to society and the State for the environment
- Michael Sela - 1959, life sciences
- Zvi Selinger - 2007, biology
- Dubi Seltzer - 2009, Hebrew song
- Ada Sereni - 1995, special contribution to society and the State
- Mordechai Seter - 1965, music
- Arie Shachar - 1999, geography
- Esther Roth-Shahamorov - 1999, sports
- Shulamit Shahar - 2003, general history
- Gershon Shaked - 1993, Hebrew literature
- Shaul Shaked - 2000, linguistics
- Abraham Haim Shalit - 1960, Jewish studies
- Shin Shalom (Shalom Yosef Shapira) - 1973 literature
- Alice Shalvi - 2007, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Meir Shamgar - 1996, special contribution to society and the State
- Adi Shamir - 2008, computer sciences
- Moshe Shamir - 1988, Hebrew literature
- Yitzhak Shamir - 2001, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Mordechai Shani - 2009, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Anita Shapira - 2008, history
- Arie Shapira - 1994, composition
- Benjamin Shapira - 1955, medical science
- Rina Shapira - 1995, education
- Shalom Yosef Shapira ("Shin Shalom") - 1973 literature
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro - 1981, mathematics
- Arieh Sharon - 1962, architecture
- Nathan Sharon - 1994, biochemistry
- Ben-Ami Sharpstein - 2005, philosophy
- Zohara Shatz - 1955, painting and sculpture - fine art
- Rachel Shazar - 1958, social sciences
- Chaim Sheba - 1968, medicine
- Dan Shechtman - 1998, physics
- Saharon Shelah - 1998, mathematics
- Naomi Shemer - 1983, Hebrew song (lyrics and melody)
- Yechiel Shemi - 1986, lifetime achievement in sculpture (Land of Israel)
- David Shimoni - 1954, literature
- Haim Shirman - 1957, Jewish studies
- Avraham Shlonsky - 1967, literature
- Chone Shmeruk - 1996, Jewish languages
- Herzl Shmueli - 2001, music
- Zalman Shneur - 1955, literature
- Shlomo Giora Shoham - 2003, criminology
- Judith Shoval - 1965, social sciences
- Abraham Sofer (Shrieber) - 1981, Rabbinical literature
- Miriam Yalan-Shteklis - 1956, children's literature
- Shmuel Shtrikman - 2001, physics
- Gershon Shufman - 1956, literature
- Arieh Simon - 1975, education
- Ernst Simon - 1967, education
- Zvi Sliternik - 1962, medicine
- Yizhar Smilansky (S. Yizhar) - 1959, literature
- Eliezer Smoli - 1957, children's literature
- Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel - 1980, special contribution to society and the State for the environment
- Abraham Sofer (Shrieber) - 1981, Rabbinical literature
- Zahava Solomon - 2009, social work
- Sasson Somekh - 2005, Middle East studies
- Daniel Sperber - 1992, Jewish studies
- Nathan Spiegel - 1990, humanities
- Richard Stein - 1973, medicine
- Yehezkel Stein - 1996, medicine
- Avraham Steinberg - 1999, original Rabbinical literature
- Eliezer Steinman - 1963, literature
- Adin Steinsaltz - 1988, Jewish studies
- Menahem Stern - 1977, history of the Jewish people
- Sara Stern-Katan - 1998, special contribution to society and the State
- Meir Sternberg - 1996, general literature
- Zeev Sternhell - 2008, political science
- Shmuel Stoller - 1965, agriculture
- Lea Koenig Stolper - 1987, acting arts on the stage
- Yehezkel Streichman - 1990, painting
- Selig Suskin - 1958, agriculture
- Yaakov Sussmann - 1997, Talmudic studies
- Abraham Sutzkever - 1885, Yiddish literature
- Eliahu Swirski - 1994, agriiculture
T
- Israel Tal - 1997, special contribution to society and the State
- Josef Tal - 1970, music
- Igal Talmi - 1965, exact sciences
- Shemaryahu Talmon - 1997, Biblical studies
- Yaakov Talmon - 1956, social sciences
- Sara Levi-Tanai - 1973, dance
- Israel Ta-Shma - 2003, Talmudic studies
- Amin Tarif - 1990, special contribution to society and the State
- David Tartakover - 2002, design
- Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz - 1984, children's literature
- Gad Tedeschi - 1954, jurisprudence
- Shabtai Teveth - 2005, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Anna Ticho - 1980, painting
- Isaiah Tishbi - 1979, Jewish studies
- Emanuel Tov - 2009, Biblical studies
- Gad Ben Ami Tsarfati - 2000, linguistics
- Dan Tsur - 1998, architecture
- Reuven Tsur - 2009, literature
- Yigal Tumarkin - 2004, sculpture
- Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai - 1956, Jewish studies
- Zeev Tseltner - 1971, jurisprudence
U
- Michah Ullman - 2009, sculpture
- Ulpan Akiva with Shulamith Katznelson - 1986, lifework in education
- Ephraim Urbach - 1955, Jewish studies
V
- Jacob Van der Hoeden - 1961, agriculture
- Lia van Leer - 2004, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Yarom Vardimon - 2007, design
- Zev Vilnay - 1982, acquisition of knowledge and love of the Land of Israel
- Andre De Vries - 1970, medicine
- Akiva Vroman - 1955, life sciences
W
- Yitzhak Wahl - 1992, life sciences
- Eliezer Waldenberg – 1976, Rabbinical literature
- Zerach Warhaftig - 1983, special contribution to society and the State for the advancement of Hebrew law
- Jeshajahu Weinberg - 1999, special contribution to society and the State
- Moshe Weinfeld - 1994, Bible
- Meir Weiss - 1990, Jewish studies
- Yehoshua Weissman - 2001, law
- Raanan Weitz - 1990, special contribution to society and the State
- Shmuel Werses - 1989, Hebrew literature
- Haim Ernst Wertheimer - 1956, medicine
- Stef Wertheimer - 1991, special contribution to society and the State
- Meir Wieseltier - 2000, writing and poetry
- Meir Wilchek - 1990, life sciences
- Moshe Wilensky - 1983, Hebrew song (melody)
- Itamar Willner - 2002, chemistry
- Wingate Institute - 1989, sports
- WIZO - 2008, lifetime contributions & special contribution to society and the State
Y
- Avraham Yaakov - 1977, special contribution to work
- Menahem Yaari - 1987, economics
- Yaacov Yaar - 2007, architecture
- Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute) - 1885, Eastern Jewish languages
- Yad Harav Herzog, Complete Israeli Talmud Institute - - 1973, Rabbinical literature
- Yad Levanim in Petah Tikva - 1980, special contribution to society and the State in the activity of perpetuating the memory of (fallen) sons (and daughters)
- Yad Sarah - 1994, special contribution to society and the State
- Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority - 1973 (Encyclopeadia of Jewish Communities (Pinkas HaKehillot) project) and 2003, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State
- Avraham Yaski - 1982, architecture
- Hava Lazarus-Yafeh – 1993, history
- Yigael Yadin - 1956, Jewish studies
- Yossi Yadin - 1991, stage arts - theatre
- Lippa Yahalon - 1998, architecture
- Miriam Yalan-Shteklis - 1956, children's literature
- Myriam Yardeni - 1999, general history
- Yafa Yarkoni - 1998, Hebrew song
- Zvi Yavetz - 1990, humanities
- Haim Yavin - communications - 1997, television
- Sarah Yefet - 2004, biblical studies
- A. B. Yehoshua (Avraham B. Yehoshua) - 1995, Hebrew literature
- Israel Yeivin - 1989, study of the Hebrew language
- Shmuel Yeivin - 1968, Jewish studies
- Yosef Yekutieli - 1979, special contribution to society and the State - sports
- Hanoch Yelon - 1962, Jewish studies
- Rene Yerushalmi - 2008, theatre
- Yeshivat Hesder - 1991, special contribution to society and the State
- Avoth Yeshurun - 1992, Hebrew poetry
- Haim Yisraeli - 1998, special contribution to society and the State
- Shaul Yisraeli - 1992, Jewish studies
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute - 1885, Middle Eastern Jewish literature
- S. Yizhar (Yizhar Smilansky) - 1959, literature
- Ada Yonath - 2002, chemistry
- Youth Aliyah - 1958, education
- Youth Movements Council - 2008, lifetime achievement & special contribution to society
- Ovadia Yosef - 1970, Rabbinical literature
- Yirmiyahu Yovel - 2000, philosophy
- Dov Yudovsky - 2002, media
Z
- Gersham Zach with HaKfar HaYarok - 1986, lifework in education
- Nathan Zach - 1995, Hebrew poetry
- Amotz Zahavi with Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel - 1980, special contribution to society and the State for the environment
- Yitzhak Zamir - 1997, law
- Joseph Zaritsky - 1959, painting
- "Ze'ev" - Yaacov Farkas – 1993, communications, journalism
- Rena Zeitzov - 2005, medicine
- Shlomo Zemach - 1965, literature
- Shlomo Yosef Zevin - 1959, Rabbinical literature
- Moshe Zilberg - 1964, jurisprudence
- Yosef Zinger - 2000, engineering and technology
- Jacob Ziv – 1993, exact sciences
- Miriam Zohar - 1987, acting
- Michael Zohary - 1954, life sciences
- Bernhard Zondek - 1958, medicine
- Franz Zondheimer - 1960, exact sciences
- Yoel Zussman - 1975, jurisprudence
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