The Numbers Behind the Israel Prize
The political storm over the Israel Prize for 2024 is just the latest in a series of scandals surrounding the country’s highest cultural honor. Shomrim, in a joint project with Ynet, analyzed the hundreds of Israel Prize laureates since the establishment of the state: Of the 777 recipients, only 51 are Mizrahim. In the category of exact sciences, women make up just 2 percent of all recipients. The good news is that these trends are changing
The political storm over the Israel Prize for 2024 is just the latest in a series of scandals surrounding the country’s highest cultural honor. Shomrim, in a joint project with Ynet, analyzed the hundreds of Israel Prize laureates since the establishment of the state: Of the 777 recipients, only 51 are Mizrahim. In the category of exact sciences, women make up just 2 percent of all recipients. The good news is that these trends are changing
The political storm over the Israel Prize for 2024 is just the latest in a series of scandals surrounding the country’s highest cultural honor. Shomrim, in a joint project with Ynet, analyzed the hundreds of Israel Prize laureates since the establishment of the state: Of the 777 recipients, only 51 are Mizrahim. In the category of exact sciences, women make up just 2 percent of all recipients. The good news is that these trends are changing
Home page photo: Singer Shoshana Demari receives the Israel Prize in 1988 from the hands of President Haim Herzog. Photo: Ya'akov Sa'ar - GPO
Miki Levy
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April 30, 2024
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