Prize

One lucky Israeli wins NIS 40 million in highest lottery jackpot since 2024

NIS 40 million is the legal maximum in the regular Lotto draw, with the Double Lotto standing at NIS 80 million, making it one of the largest prize pools available in Israel. 

|BySHIR PERETS
Lottery tickets (illustrative)
Athletics - London Marathon - London, Britain - April 27, 2025 General view of runners on Tower Bridge during the London Marathon, April, 2025.

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
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

EMET Prize Committee Issues Call for 2020 Prize Nominees

The EMET prize is awarded in five different general areas: culture and art, exact sciences, life sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

FEBRUARY 7, 2020ByALAN ROSENBAUM
2019 EMET Prize Award Ceremony

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