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Israel Prize
The
Israel Prize
is an award handed out by the
State of Israel
and is generally regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on
Israeli Independence Day
, in a state ceremony in
Jerusalem
, in the presence of the
President
, the
Prime Minister
, the
Speaker
of the
Knesset
(Israel's legislature), and the
Supreme Court
President. The prize was set up in 1953 at the initiative of the
Minister of Education
Ben-Zion Dinor
, who himself went on to win the prize in 1958 and 1973.
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