Guardian of Zion Award

The Guardian of Zion Award is an annual award given since 1997 to individuals who have been supportive of the State of Israel. It is awarded at the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University, where the prize recipient gives the keynote address.

Year	Recipient	Nationality	Profession	Speech
1997	Elie Wiesel	United States	Professional writer Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
1998	Herman Wouk	United States	Professional writer and 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner
1999	A.M. Rosenthal	United States	Former New York Times editor Former New York Daily News columnist
2000	Sir Martin Gilbert	United Kingdom	Historian and writer
2001	Cynthia Ozick	United States	Professional writer
2002	Charles Krauthammer	United States	The Washington Post columnist
2003	Ruth Roskies Wisse	United States	Yiddish professor of Harvard University
2004	Arthur Cohn	Switzerland	Filmmaker and writer
2005	William Safire	United States	Author, journalist and speechwriter 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner
2006	Daniel Pipes	United States	Author and historian
2007	Norman Podhoretz	United States	Author, columnist
2008	David Be'eri, Mordechai Eliav, Rabbi Yehuda Maly	Israel	[1]
2009	Caroline Glick	Israel	Journalist[2]
2010	Malcolm Hoenlein	United States	Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations[3]
	Dore Gold	Israel
2012	Israel Antiquities Authority	Israel
2013	James S. Snyder	Israel
2017	John R. Bolton	United States	National Security Advisor
2018	Yisrael Meir Lau	Israel
2019	Natan Sharansky	Israel
2022	David M. Friedman	United States	United States Ambassador to Israel