Claim: The prize awarded by the foundation as well as Tel Aviv University, Dan David Prize was rejected in 2016 by a British academic from the University College London and chair of the digital scholarship project named Catherine Hall—an Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History.
Evidence: The foundation and Tel Aviv University award the prizes. In 2016, Catherine Hall of University College London rejected the Dan David Prize. Catherine Hall FBA (born 1946 in Kettering) is a British academic. She is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London and chair of its digital scholarship project, the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership.