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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=173579
Israel Prizes Awarded on Independence Day
(Jerusalem Post) Ben Hartman - Prizes for personal or organizational achievement were awarded at the Israel Prize ceremony on Tuesday, an Independence Day tradition. The winners included Prof. Yehoshua Kolodny of the Hebrew University (earth sciences), Prof. Yair Aharoni, a founder of Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management (administrative science), Prof. Avraham Nitzan of Tel Aviv U. (chemistry), Aryeh Sivan (poetry), Prof. Avishai Margalit of Princeton University, a professor emeritus at Hebrew U. (philosophy), Prof. Moshe Addad of Bar-Ilan University (criminology), Hanoch Bartov (literature), Prof. Avraham Tal of Tel Aviv U. (Hebrew linguistics), Peter Mirom (photography), Prof. Aryeh Levin of Hebrew U. (general linguistics), and Prof. Jonathan Gressel of the Weizmann Institute of Science (agricultural biotechnology). Lifetime achievement awards were given to Tel Aviv's Susan Delal Center for its contribution to dance arts, Negev pioneer and former education minister Aharon Yadin, ILAN - the Israel Foundation for Handicapped Children, and Druze community leader Kamal Mansour.