For each year, the recipients are, in most instances, listed in the order in which they appear on the official Israel Prize website.

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In 1993, Yeshayahu Leibowitz was selected for the Israel Prize for "his life's work and special contribution to the society and the state," but after backlash from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on political grounds,^[10] Leibowitz refused the prize in order to avoid "caus[ing a] tangle for the prime minister."^[11]

Year	Name^[1]	Field	Comments
1953	Gedaliah Alon	Jewish studies	Posthumously awarded prize, three years after his death. First recipient of the prize for Jewish studies.
	Haim Hazaz	Literature	One of first two recipients of the prize for Literature.
	Ya'akov Cohen	Literature	Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1958. One of first two recipients of the prize for Literature.
	Dina Feitelson-Schur	Education	First female recipient of the Israel Prize. First recipient of the prize for Education.
	Mark Dvorzhetski	Social science	First recipient of the prize for Social science.
	Lipman Heilprin	Medical science	First recipient of the prize for medicine or Medical science.
	Zeev Ben-Zvi	Sculpture	First recipient of the prize for any of the fine arts.
	Shimshon Amitsur	Exact sciences	One of the first two recipients of the prize for Exact sciences.
	Jacob Levitzki	Exact sciences	Family relationship: Father of recipient Alexander Levitzki (1990, Life sciences). One of the first two recipients of the prize for Exact sciences.
1954	Moshe Zvi Segal	Jewish studies	First rabbi to receive the Israel Prize.
	Schmuel Hugo Bergmann	Humanities	Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1974. First recipient of the prize for the Humanities.
	David Shimoni	Literature
	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	Literature	Also awarded the Israel Prize in 1958.
	Arthur Biram	Education
	Gad Tedeschi	Jurisprudence	First recipient of the prize for Jurisprudence or law.
	Franz Ollendorff	Exact sciences
	Michael Zohary	Life sciences	First recipient of the prize for Life sciences.
	Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer	Agriculture	First recipient of the prize for Agriculture.
	Ödön Pártos	Music	First recipient of the prize for Music.
1955	Ephraim Urbach	Jewish studies
	Isaac Heinemann	Jewish studies
	Zalman Shneur	Literature
	Yitzhak Lamdan	Literature
	Michael Fekete	Exact sciences
	Israel Reichert	Life sciences
	Yaakov Ben-Tor
	Akiva Vroman
	Benjamin Shapira	Medical science
	Sara Hestrin-Lerner	Medical science	Family relationship: Sister of recipient Shlomo Hestrin (1957, Exact sciences).
	Netanel Hochberg	Agriculture
	Zahara Schatz	Painting and Sculpture
1956	Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai	Jewish studies
	Yigael Yadin	Jewish studies
	Yehezkel Abramsky	Rabbinical literature	First recipient of the prize for specifically Rabbinical literature.
	Gershon Shufman	Literature
	Miriam Yalan-Shteklis	Children's literature	First recipient of the prize specifically for Children's literature.
	Nechama Leibowitz	Education
	Yaakov Talmon	Social sciences
	Avraham HaLevi Frankel	Exact sciences
	Manfred Aschner	Life sciences

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