Prize

Escort error derails U.S. half marathon leaders

After a police emergency shifted deployments, the lead convoy took race leaders roughly 1,000 meters off the route, resulting in finishes of ninth, 12th, and 13th.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Athletics - London Marathon - London, Britain - April 27, 2025 General view of runners on Tower Bridge during the London Marathon, April, 2025.
Hana accepting her prize at the announcement of the 2026 Laureates in Montreal on November 13, 2025.

The composer who solved a riddle: Hana Ajiashvili takes the Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music

2026 Azrieli Prize winner Hana Ajiashvili reimagines a medieval riddle in “Riddle,” shaping history and personal experience into a powerful score.

|ByRONNIE ROSENMAN
PRIZE-WINNING composer Lior Navok.

Israeli Lior Navok wins prestigious Engel Prize for Ukraine war composition

Navok describes his 10-minute orchestral piece, 'Blue, Yellow, Smoke,' composed during the early days of the Russia-Ukraine War, as trying to 'capture the melancholic mood of war.'

|ByLIRAN GURKIEWICZ
Omar El Akkad attends the 76th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on November 19, 2025 in New York City.

National Book Award in nonfiction goes to ‘One day, everyone will have always been against this'

“It’s very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide,” El Akkad said in his acceptance speech.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Marketing associate of the month: Bank Hapoalim’s Asaf Azulay

Marketing Association selects Asaf Azulay, head of marketing for Bank Hapoalim as the Marketing Associate of the Month

DECEMBER 30, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Asaf Azulay

Charles Bronfman currently accepting 2020 nominations

“Each of the Prize laureates has a special spark. They approach their work with humility, passion and leadership," said Bronfman.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Birthright founder Charles Bronfman at the seventh annual Jerusalem Post conference, April 29, 2018