# Dizengoff Prize

The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture is awarded annually by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality since 1937.
The prize is named after Meir Dizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv. According to the Tel Aviv municipality, the purpose of the prize is to turn Tel Aviv into a centre of Israeli art and culture.

## Recipients

The following is a table of Dizengoff Prize laureates in their respective art form:
| Year | Painting | Sculpture |
| 1934 | Yitzhak Frenkel | |
| 1937 | Aharon Avni, Moshe Mokady, Arie Fein, Shimshon Holzman, Chaim Gliksberg | |
| 1938 | Alef Kahana, Nachum Gutman, David Hendler, Menachem Shemi, Meron Sima, Shmuel Ovadia, Arieh Allweil, Yitzhak Frenkel | Trude Chaim |
| 1939 | Pinchas Litvinovsky, Yishai Kulbiansky, Arieh Navon, Yitzhak Frenkel | |
| 1940 | Arie Orland, Miron Sima, Mordechai Levanon, Yitzhak Frenkel | Willy Levin, Jacob Brandenburg |
| 1941 | Moshe Castel, Chaim Schwarz, Avigdor Stematsky, Arie Aroch, Amiram Tamari | |
| 1942 | Moshe Mokady, Joseph Zaritsky, Menachem Shemi | |
| 1943 | Yisrael Paldi | Moshe Sternschuss |
| 1944 | Yechezkel Streichman, Arie Fein, Joseph Kossonogi | Batya Lishanski |
| 1945–1946 | Robert Bazer, Marcel Janco, Eliahu Sygard, Yohanan Simon, Moshe Castel, David Hendler, Esther Lurie | Yitzhak Danziger, Dov Feigin |
| 1947–1948 | Aharon Avni, Aliza Bak, Yitzhak Frenkel, Jakob Eisenscher, Yechiel Krize, Chaya Schwartz, Peretz Rozenfeld, Zvi Schorr | Aharon Priwer, Moshe Ziffer, Michael Karre |
| 1950–1951 | Marcel Janco, Moshe Mokady, Zvi Meirovitz, Menachem Shemi, Leon Isaacov, Yochanan Ben-Yaakov, Blanca Tauber, Moshe Proppes | Elul Kosso, Shoshana Heiman, Rudi Lehmann, Arie Resnik |
| 1953 | Shalom Sabba, Aharon Kahana, Yohanan Simon, Isidor Ascheim, Aviva Uri | Ze'ev Ben-Zvi |
| 1954 | Aharon Giladi, Yechezkel Streichman, Joseph Kossonogi | Yechiel Shemi |
| 1956 | Nachum Gutman, Chaim Glicksberg, Yosl Bergner, Avigdor Stematsky | Moshe Sternschuss |
| 1957 | Arieh Lubin, Leo Kahn, Naftali Bezem | Batya Lishanski |
| 1958 | Ephraim Lifshits, Mina Zisslman | Mordechai Pitkin |
| 1959 | Israel Paldi, Shraga Weil | Zahara Schatz |
| 1960 | Jean David, Elchanan Halperen, Chaya Schwartz | Aharon Priwer |
| 1961 | Yohanan Simon, Mordechai Levanon, Zvi Meirovitz, Mordechai Arieli | |
| 1962 | Yaakov Tesler, Yosef Halevi, Sima Slonim | |
| 1963 | David Meshullam | Zvi Aldouby |
| 1964 | Gershon Davidovitch, Yechezkel Kimchi, Reuven Rubin (honorary award) | |
| 1965 | John Byle | Buky Schwartz |
| 1966 | Tzila Naman, Kalman Hak | Rudi Lehmann, Pinchas Eshet |
| 1967 | Pinchas Abramovitz, Michael Gross | Shoshana Heiman |
| 1969 | Yechezkel Streichman, Kalman Hak | Robert Bazer |
| 1976 | Osias Hofstatter, Hava Mehutan, Oded Feingersh | Yaakov Loutchansky (honorary award) |
| 1978 | Eliahu Gat, Raffi Lavie | |
| 1982 | Avigdor Luisada, Lea Nikel | |
| 1985 | Uri Lifschitz | Yigal Tumarkin |
| 1990 | Shlomo Vitkin | Menashe Kadishman |
| 1997 | Michal Na'aman, Jan Rauchwerger | |
| 2001 | Michail Grobman, Drora Domini, Gil Shani | |
| 2005 | Pinchas Cohen Gan, Eli Petel | |
| 2007 | Dganit Berest (painting & photography) | Miri Segal (multidisciplinary) |
| 2009 | David Reeb | |
| 2011 | Arie Ben-Ron | Nahum Tevet |
| 2013 | Joshua Borkovsky, Simcha Shirman (photography) | |
| 2015 | Ido Bar-El, Nurit David | |
| 2017 | | Uri Katzenstein |