1979
Aron Chilewich
Prof. Haim Hanani
Hyman Kreitman
Prof. Moshe Rachmilewitz
1980
Lane Kirkland
Dr. Alec Lerner
Prof. Leo Picard
Prof. Natan Rosen
1981
Prof. John Beck
1982
Justice Shlomo Elkayam
General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Dr. Zoltan Toman
David Tuviyahu (posthumous)
1983
Roberta Abrams
Prof. Michael Evenari
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Prof. Benjamin Mazar
Prof. Cecil G. Sheps
1984
Arnold Forster
Dr. Thomas O. Hecht
Shimon Peres
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Barbara Tuchman
Prof. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach
Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea
1985
Prof. Joshua Jortner
Teddy Kollek
Dr. George Wise
1986
Justice Simon Agranat
President Chaim Herzog
Joseph Jacobson
Dr. Paul Janssen
Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg
Dr. Abram L. Sachar
1987
Lady Sarah Cohen
Prof. Haim Harari
Paul Ivanier
Abba Kovner
Bertram Lubner
Prof. Moshe Prywes
George Shrut
1988
Conrad Abrahams-Curiel
Milada Ayrton
Sir Isaiah Berlin
Yeshayahu Dan
Prof. Michael Feldman
Prof. Sidney Gelber
Moshe Nessim
Prof. Elie Wiesel
Aharon Yadlin
1989
Norbert Blechner
Avram Goldstein-Goren
Prof. Zeev Hadari
Prof. Roald Hoffmann
Philip Krupp
Milton Petrie
Prof. Menahem E. Yaari
Haim Zadok
Suzanne Zlotowski
1990
Prof. Shimshon Amitsur
Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann
Ronald Oelbaum
Leonard Shane
Nathan Sharansky
Prof. Solomon H. Snyder
Maestro Isaac Stern
1991
Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet
Uri Lubrani
Annemarie Renger
Prof. Alexander E. Sheindlin
Jack J. Spitzer
Major General (res.) Israel Tal
1992
Prof. Kenneth J. Arrow
Abba Eban
Amb. Max Kampelman
Ilse Katz
President François Mitterrand
Dr. Davide Sala
Eric Samson
President Ezer Weizman
1993
Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
Mendel Kaplan
Siegfried Lenz
Naomi Shemer
Anne Tanenbaum
Prof. Pinhas Zusman
1994
Robert H. Arnow
David Hirschhorn
Philip R. Lee
Yitzhak Rabin
Edgar D. de Picciotto
1995
Amb. Mohamed Abdel Aziz Bassiouny
Dr. Domingo Cavallo
Prof. Daniel Cohen
Ariel Elia
Dr. Wolfgang Hasenclever
Prof. Jacob Katz
Dr. Helmut Kohl
Harold Oshry
Justice Meir Shamgar
Avraham Shohat
Frederick Siegmund
Michael W. Sonnenfeldt
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Martin Wyler
1996
Moshe Arens
Dr. Joseph Burg
Arye Lova Eliav
Dr. Paul Feher
Dr. Johannes Gerster
Nadine Gordimer
Rosalind Henwood
President Prof. Ephraim Katzir
Hubert Leven
Prof. Bernard Lewis
Harry Stern
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz
Simon Wiesenthal
Dr. Felix Zandman
1997
S. Daniel Abraham
Amb. Asher Ben-Natan
Harry T. Dozor
Ruth Dayan
Shlomo Hillel
Prof. Ora Kedem
President Nelson Mandela
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
President Yitzhak Navon
Dr. Ferdinand Piëch
Prof. Howard Raiffa
Dr. Edward Steinberg
Prof. Zvi Yavetz
Zvi Zurr
1998
Yehiel Admoni
Eric A. Benhamou
Prof. Haim Doron
Prof. Stanley Fisher
President Roman Herzog
Dr. Henry Kissinger
Mario Vargas Llosa
President Dr. Johannes Rau
Yitzhak Shamir
Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth
Kenneth L. Tucker
Ed Vickar
Stef Wertheimer
1999
Yehuda Amichai
Roberto Benigni
Prof. Yehudit Birk
Yoel De Malach
Uzia Galil
Prof. Sir Aaron Klug
Albert Memmi
Prof. Klaus Schwab
Murray H. Shusterman
Barbara Walters
2000
Zvi Alon
Ing. Pedro Dondisch
Prof. Jacob Frenkel
Haim Gouri
Sami Michael
Prof. Sadako Ogata
Prof. Michael Rabin
Prof. Meir Wilchek
James D. Wolfensohn
Prof. Amnon Yariv
Solly Yellin
2001
Dr. Hubert Burda
Abby Joseph Cohen
Prof. Raymond A. Dwek CBE, FRS
Lord Foster of Thames Bank
Efraim Kishon
Gustave Leven
Prof. Bracha Ramot
Rabbi Dr. Alexandre Safran
Prof. Michael Sela
Avraham Seroussi
Ariel Sharon
Robert St. John
2002
Prof. Baruch Blumberg
Elie Elalouf
President Vicente Fox Quesada
Amb. Richard Holbrooke
Eli Hurvitz
Efraim Ilin
Prof. Philip Needleman
Prof. Gershon Shaked
Prof. Dan Shechtman
Friede Springer
Elsa Weinberg
Prof. Ada Yonath
2003
Prof. Haim Aviv
Arnold M. Bengis
Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
Prof. Joel L. Fleishman
Prof. Hillel Furstenberg
Dorian S. Goldman
Lawrence Goodman
Prof. Daniel Kahneman
Dr. Bernard Kouchner
Dr. Mathilde Krim
Dr. Richard A. Lerner
Dr. Paul A. Marks
Eliyahu Navi
2004
Eliyahu Amir
Nina Brink
Edgar M. Bronfman
Prof. Aaron J. Ciechanover
Prof. Beno Eckmann
Ida Fink
Prof. Alain Finkielkraut
Dr. Richard D. Klausner
Benzion Landa
Dr. Howard W. Marcus
Lottie R. Marcus
Amb. Thomas R. Pickering
Seymour R. Powers
Lt. Col. (res.) Arnold Simon
Prof. Sasson Somekh
The Rt. Hon. David Trimble
2005
Yossi Banai
Rear Admiral (ret.) Dr. Susan J. Blumenthal
Lucien Y. Bronicki
Ralph I. Goldman
Dr. Leroy E. Hood
Prof. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
Claude Lelouch
Morton L. Mandel
Richard J. Pratt AC
Prof. Jehuda Reinharz
Terry Meyerhoff Rubenstein
Ali Salem (in absentia)
Justice Jacob Türkel
2006
Shulamit Aloni
André Azoulay
Justice Aharon Barak
Stephen K. Breslauer
Prof. Yosef Gorny
Adv. Yair Green
Morris S. Kahn
Prof. Alexander Levitzki
Maestro Shlomo Mintz
Orna Porat
Prof. A. Michael Spence
Henry A. Weiss
2007
Prof. Aharon Appelfeld
Prof. Ruth Arnon
Robert Equey
Haim Israeli
Ada Karmi-Melamede
Dr. Mary-Claire King
Galia Maor
Channa Marron
Prof. Michael I. Posner
Marc Rich
Leanor Segal
Prof. Hermona Soreq
2008
Prof. Yehuda Bauer
Prof. Avishay Braverman
Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Justice Dalia Dorner
Stanley D. Ginsburg
Prof. Ágnes Heller
Prof. Amos Oz
Tzipi Pines Proshan
Baron David René James de Rothschild
Carol Saal
Rubin Salant
Prof. Michal Schwartz
2009
Dr. Mohammed Al-Hadid
Gila Almagor
Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund
Dani Karavan
Amb. Ronald S. Lauder
Rina Schenfeld
Prof. Alice Shalvi
Prof. Anita Shapira
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Vogel
Haim Yavin
Roy J. Zuckerberg
2010
Prof. Rachel Elboim-Dror
Prof. Peter Fritz
Prof. Yekutiel Gershoni
Gustave S. Levey
Maj. Gen. (res.) Amram Mitzna
H.E. Miguel Ángel Moratinos
Toby Mower
Abraham Ben David Ohayon
Prof. Eliora Ron
Eric F. Ross
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
H.E. Simone Veil
A.B. Yehoshua
2011
Azaria Alon
Raya Strauss Bendror
Prof. France A. Córdova
Bob Geldof KBE
Sir Martin Gilbert
Yehudit Hendel
Rivka Michaeli
Prof. Donna E. Shalala
Karen Tal
Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen
Prof. Daniel Weihs
2012
Prof. Yakir Aharonov
Adina Bar Shalom
Justice Dorit Beinisch
Prof. Howard (Haim) Cedar
The Baroness Deech DBE
Matthew Gould CMG, MBE
Prof. Deborah Lipstadt
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Prof. Jesse Roth
Meir Shalev
Berta Yampolsky
Dr. Debrework Zewdie
2013
Prof. Patrick Aebischer
Prof. Ofer Bar-Yosef
Cherie Blair CBE
Prof. Joshua Blau
Prof. Mario R. Cappechi
Maxine Fassberg
Ruth Flinkman-Marandy
Lea Koenig Stolper
Prof. Robert Langer
Prof. Raphael Mechoulam
David Tartakover
2014
Shlomo Bar
Dr. Linda S. Birnbaum
James M. Breslauer
Prof. Saul Friedländer
Dr. Nahum Guzik
Prof. Andrew D. Hamilton
Evgeny Kissin
Baroness Ariane de Rothschild
Dr. Cheryl Saban
Prof. Yaakov Sussmann
Dr. Yossi Vardi
Prof. Shulamit Volkov
Miriam Zohar
2015
Prof. Yisrael Aumann
Prof. Jill Banfield
Erez Biton
Prof. Adele Diamond
Prof. Carol Gilligan
Prof. Anne Glover
Alexander M. Goren
Prof. Jacques Lewiner
Yitzhak Livni
Lorry I. Lokey
Michal Rovner
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
Judith Yovel Recanati
2016
Major General (res.) Doron Almog
Prof. Naomi Chazan
Prof. Irwin Cotler
Prof. Harvey V. Fineberg
Nurit Hirsh
Prof. Valerie Mizrahi
Prof. Nathan Nelson
H.E. Gabriel Elorriaga Pisarik
Ernest Scheller, Jr.
Dan-Benaya Seri
Prof. Silvia Torres-Peimbert
Prof. Jeffrey D. Ullman
2017
Prof. Linda B. Buck
Ruvik Danilovich
Prof. Ruth Gavison
Hon. Julia Gillard
Prof. Shafi Goldwasser
Prof. Elihu Katz
Prof. Eric S. Lander
Sigalit Landau
Ellen S. Marcus
Menahem Pressler
Prof. Stanley B. Prusiner
Moshe Safdie
Carole and Marcus Weinstein
2018
Robert Badinter
Elena Dmitrievna Bashkirova
Prof. Nili Cohen
Dr. Ilana Dayan
Anat Draigor
Arno Gerlach
Prof. Edvard I. Moser
Janet Ann Napolitano
Prof. Cary Nelson
Rona Ramon (posthumous)
Prof. Colin Ratledge
Prof. Dame Carol Robinson
Imad Telhami
2019
Dr. Jan Low, USA
Ohad Naharin, Israel
Justice Prof. Ahmad Natour, Israel
Amb. Daniel B. Shapiro, USA
