# Sokolov Award

The Sokolov Award, also known as Sokolov Prize, is an Israeli journalism award, awarded by the Tel Aviv municipality, in memory of Nahum Sokolow.
The award has been granted since 1956, initially to print journalists and since 1981 to journalists from the electronic media. It is considered the second most prestigious award for Israeli journalism, second only to the Israel Prize for Communications.
The prize is awarded annually, in close proximity to Nahum Sokolow's birthday (ה' בשבט, Hebrew calendar), or the anniversary of his death (י"ב באייר, Hebrew calendar).

## Objectives

The prize is awarded to encourage journalistic excellence.

## Committee of judges

The Sokolov Award's statute stipulates that the mayor should appoint a selecting committee of three members (an academy figure, a jurist and a representative of the mayor), who in turn pick the judges on the award committee. The City Council then determines whether to approve the judges. The judges are made up of two senior journalists, two academy figures, and a representative of the municipality.

## The prize

Winners receive a monetary prize. As of 2007, the prize was 18,000 shekels.

## Winners

Winners by year :
| Year | Name | Notes/awarded for |
| 1956 | David Zakai | |
| 1956 | Yosef Yambur | |
| 1956 | Benzion Katz | |
| 1956 | Ezriel Carlebach | |
| 1956 | Ephraim Talmi | |
| 1958 | Yehuda Gotthelf | |
| 1958 | Yosef Heftman | |
| 1958 | Aryeh Navon | |
| 1958 | Ephraim Kishon | |
| 1958 | Ezra Rivlis | |
| 1959 | David Lazar | |
| 1959 | Uri Keysari | |
| 1959 | Haim Shrer | |
| 1959 | Moshe Sharett | - |
| 1961 | Rafael Bashan | |
| 1961 | Herzl Berger | |
| 1961 | Haim Gouri | |
| 1964 | Michael Bar-Zohar | - |
| 1964 | Yitzhak Gruenbaum | |
| 1964 | Kuf' Shabtai | - |
| 1966 | Ruth Bondy | |
| 1966 | Herzl Rosenblum | |
| 1969 | Haim Hefer | - |
| 1969 | Isaac Ramba | |
| 1972 | Hana Zemer | - |
| 1972 | Baruch Nadal | - |
| 1972 | Ya'akov Rabi | - |
| 1975 | Yeshayahu Avrech | - |
| 1975 | Mark Geffen | |
| 1975 | Shalom Rosenfeld | - |
| 1975 | Ze'ev Schiff | |
| 1977 | Aryeh Disenchick | - |
| 1977 | Haviv Canaan | |
| 1981 | Michael Assaf | |
| 1981 | Nahum Barnea | |
| 1981 | Ya'akov Farkash (Ze'ev) | |
| 1984 | Haim Isaac | |
| 1984 | Ya'akov Erez, Avi Bettelheim, Avraham Tirosh | |
| 1985 | Eitan Almog | |
| 1985 | Yossi Goddard | |
| 1985 | Ziv Yonatan | |
| 1985 | Ehud Yaari | |
| 1985 | Israel public channel 1, Israel Army Radio and Kol Yisrael teams | |
| 1988 | Gideon Greif | |
| 1988 | Edna Pe'er | |
| 1988 | Avshalom Kor | |
| 1988 | Danny Rubinstein | |
| 1988 | Nehemia Shtrasler | |
| 1993 | Itai Anghel | |
| 1993 | Dov Bar-Nir | |
| 1993 | Dudu Dayan | |
| 1993 | Yehudith Lutz | |
| 1993 | Shlomo Nakdimon | |
| 1993 | Hanna Kim | |
| 1993 | Gideon Remez | |
| 1993 | Shlomo Nizan, Yair Garbuz, Danny Carmen, Tirtzah Eisenberg | |
| 1998 | Michael Handelzalts | |
| 1998 | Mishe Zack | |
| 1998 | Rafik Halabi | |
| 1998 | Tommy Lapid | |
| 1998 | Carmela Menashe | |
| 1998 | Moshe Negbi | |
| 1998 | Sever Plocker | |
| 1998 | Doron Rosenblum | |
| 2000 | Mordechai Gilat | |
| 2000 | Natan Zahavi | |
| 2000 | Dov Yodkovsky | |
| 2000 | Yehiel Limor and Rafi Mann | |
| 2000 | Amos Carmeli | |
| 2000 | Michal Niv | |
| 2000 | Einat Fishbein | |
| 2002 | Mordechai Naor | |
| 2002 | Anat Tal Shir and Zadoc Yehezkeli | |
| 2002 | Razi Barkai | |
| 2002 | Nakdimon Rogel | |
| 2002 | Oded Shahar | |
| 2004 | Uri Avnery | |
| 2004 | Daniel Ben-Simon | |
| 2004 | Emmanuel Halperin | |
| 2004 | Hanoch Marmari | |
| 2004 | Ruvik Rosenthal | |
| 2004 | Mickey Rosenthal | |
| 2004 | Muli Shapira | |
| 2005 | Ya'akov Ahimeir | |
| 2005 | Ben Shani | |
| 2005 | Gideon Eshet | |
| 2005 | Guy Leshem | |
| 2006 | Uzi Benizman | |
| 2006 | Ruth Sinai | |
| 2006 | Nissim Mishal | |
| 2006 | Itai Landsberg | |
| 2007 | Shlomi Eldar | |
| 2007 | Yaron London | |
| 2007 | Uri Klein | |
| 2007 | Ran Resnik | |
| 2008 | Aryeh Golan | |
| 2008 | Yaron Dekel | |
| 2008 | Uri Elitzur | |
| 2009 | David Witzthum | |
| 2009 | Omri Asenheim | |
| 2009 | Zvi Barel | |
| 2009 | Yossi Melman | |
| 2011 | Igal Sarna | |
| 2011 | Vardi Kahana | |
| 2011 | Haim Rivlin | |
| 2011 | Raviv Drucker | |
| 2015 | Gidi Weitz | |
| 2017 | Yoel Marcus | |
| 2017 | Ronen Bergman | |
| 2017 | Nadav Eyal | |
| 2017 | Itai Anghel | |
| 2019 | Rino Tzror | |
| 2019 | Yael Dan | |
| 2019 | Roni Linder | |
| 2019 | Yosi Verter | |
| 2021 | Ohad Hemo | |
| 2021 | Ifat Glick | |
| 2021 | Gideon Levy | |
| 2021 | Karina Shtotland | |
| 2023 | Merav Arlozorov | |
| 2023 | Shani Haziza | |
| 2023 | Guy Peleg | |
| 2023 | Shooki Taussig, Oren Persiko, and Itamar B.Z, members of HaAyin HaShevi'it ("the Seventh Eye") editorial team | |