Mount Zion Award

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The Mount Zion Award is given every second year on October 28 from Mount Zion Foundation (based at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies (IJCF) in Lucerne ) and the Benedictine abbey of Dormition in Jerusalem awarded. The Mount Zion Foundation, founded in 1986 by Pastor Wilhelm Salberg (1925–1996), has been awarding a prize since 1987 to people or institutions in Israel who have made merits in the cultural and interreligious understanding of Judaism , Christianity and Islam and in the peace process in the Middle East .

The President of the Foundation, Verena Lenzen , Head of the IJCF, and the Abbot of the Dormition Abbey on the Zionsberg, Bernhard Maria Alter OSB , traditionally present the Mount Zion Award at the end of October in memory of the Council Declaration Nostra Aetate (October 28, 1965), which Groundbreaking for the rapprochement between the Catholic Church and the non-Christian religions, especially Judaism.

The winners include well-known personalities such as the Israeli writers David Grossmann and Amos Oz , Rabbi David Rosen from the “Interreligious Coordinating Council”, the Palestinian professor Sumaya Farhat-Naser and the less well-known “everyday heroes” who stand out through their humanitarian commitment and have shown their moral courage.

Award winners

  • 1987: Mahmoud Abassi, Al-Masreq Publishing House, Shefar'am / Israel; Rose-Therese Sant, Sister of Zion, Jerusalem
  • 1989: David Grossman , writer, Mevasseret Zion / Israel
  • 1991: Elisheva Hemker, pastoral officer, Haifa and Naharija / Israel
  • 1993: Kirsten Stoffregen-Pedersen ("Sister Abraham"), Jerusalem
  • 1995: Elias and Heyam Jabbour, social workers, Schefar'am / Israel; Yeheskel and Dalia Landau, social workers, Ramle and Jerusalem
  • 1997: Sumaya Farhat-Naser , lecturer at the University of Birseit; Yitzhak Frankenthal, director of Neviot Shalom, Jerusalem
  • 1999: Shmuel Toledano, politician, Jerusalem; Ass`ad Araidy, Druze, Mayor of Maghar in Galilee
  • 2001: Kifaya Jadah; Reuven Moskovitz ; Emil Shoufany
  • 2003: "Breaking Barriers", Jerusalem / Tel Aviv
  • 2005: Rabbi David Rosen
  • 2007: Sr. Monika Düllmann
  • 2009: Nedal Jayousi, Palestinian House for Professional Solutions, Ramallah; Daniel Rossing, Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations
  • 2011: Gidon Bromberg, Munqeth Mehyar and Nader Al-Khateeb from Friends of the Earth Middle East
  • 2013: Yisca Harani and Margaret Karram
  • 2015: David Neuhaus SJ on behalf of the "Coordination for Pastoral among Migrants" (CPAM)
  • 2017: Amos Oz , writer and journalist
  • 2019: Gadi Gvaryahu on behalf of Tag Meir; Michael Krupp Award for his life's work

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