Past Award Recipients
2011
Dan Senor & Saul Singer- Co-Authors of Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Idan Ofer-Chairman of the board, Better Place.
Shai Agassi- Founder &CEO, Better Place.
2010
Charles D. Davidson, Chairman & CEO Noble Energy, Inc
Shari Arison, Owner, Arison Group
Yair Seroussi, Chairman of the Board Bank Hapoalim
2009
Lester Crown - Chairman, Henry Crown and Company
Michael Federmann - Chairman and CEO, Federmann Enterprises Ltd.
2008
Ambassador Dan Gillerman - Former Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations
Elizabeth (Lally) Graham Weymout - Senior Editor & Special Diplomatic Correspondent, Newsweek Magazine
Mortimer B. Zuckerman - Chairman, Boston Properties
Editor & Publisher, US News and World Report
Chairman & Co-Publisher, NY Daily News
2007
Lev Leviev - Head of the Leviev Group of Companies.
Nechemia (Chemi) Peres - Co-founder and managing General Partner of the Pitango Venture Capital partnership.
William R. Rhodes - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Citibank N.A. and Citicorop Holdings Inc.; Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup.
2006
Honorable Jack Kemp - Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Founder and Chairman of Kemp Partners.
Itzhak Forer -Chairman, Ernst & Young, Israel
Yitzhak Tshuva - President, El Ad Group, and owner of the Park Plaza Hotel, New York.
2005
Moshe Keret - President & Chief Executive Officer; Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI).
Alan S. Elkin -Co-founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer; Active International.
2004
Mortimer B. Zuckerman - Chairman, Boston Properties, Inc.; Editor and Publisher, U.S. News and World Report; Chairman and Co-Publisher, NY Daily News; AIFL Past President
Harvey M. Krueger - Vice Chairman; Lehman Brothers
Galia Maor -President and Chief Executive Officer; Bank Leumi le-Israel B.M.
Shlomo Nehama - Chairman of the Board; Bank Hapoalim
2003
Len Blavatnik - Chairman; Access Industries
Joseph H. Flom, Esq. - Partner; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP
Dov Lautman - Chairman; Delta Galil Industries, Ltd.
2002
George P. Shultz - Former U.S. Secretary of State
G. Allen Andreas - Chairman & Chief Executive; Archer Daniels Midland Company
Eli Hurvitz - Chairman of the Board; Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
2001
Ken Novack- Vice Chairman ; AOL Time Warner
Lawrence R. Ricciardi - Senior Vice President & General Counsel; IBM
Rupert Murdoch- Chairman & CEO; News Corporation
1999
Dr. Cedric Dempsey - President; National Collegiate Athletic Association
Dr. June Dempsey - former dean; University of Arizona’s Extended University
1998
Al Schwimmer - former CEO; Israel Aircraft Industries
Mr. Richard A. Grasso - Chairman & CEO; The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.
Mr. J. Patrick Campell - COO; New York Stock Exchange
Hanan Achsaf - President & Chairman of the Board; Motorola Israel Ltd.
Dr. Raymond R. Sackler - Founder; New York State / American Program of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
Yoel Gat - Chairman & CEO; Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.


