The Jabotinsky Medal may refer to one of several awards named in honor of Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky:

Jabotinsky Foundation awards

The Jabotinsky Centennial Medal was awarded in 1980, the centenary of Jabotinsky's birth, by the Jabotinsky Foundation of

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to 100 Americans who had performed distinguished service to the state of Israel and the Jewish people. The award was handed out to recipients by Israeli prime minister

Menachem Begin Menachem Begin ( ''Menaḥem Begin'', ; (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of both Herut and Likud and the prime minister of Israel. Before the creation of the state of Isra ...

at an awards dinner held in November in

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. Recipients included: Rev.

Billy Graham William Franklin Graham Jr. (; November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American Evangelism, evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister, and Civil rights movement, civil rights advocate, whose broadcasts and world tours featuring liv ...

Henry M. Jackson Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative (1941–1953) and U.S. senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington (state), Washington. A Cold W ...

Jacob Javits Jacob Koppel Javits ( ; May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. During his time in politics, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Representa ...

, Daniel Moynihan, Philip M. Klutznick,

Edward Teller Edward Teller (; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian and American Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of ...

Leon Uris Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including '' Exodus'' (published in 1958) and ''Trinity'' (published in 1976). Uris was a co-founder of the Write ...

, Eli Wiesel,

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Jerry Falwell Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr. (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservatism in the United States, conservative activist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch ...

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Claude Pepper Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives ...

, Hart N. Hasten, Avraham Soltes,

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,Cook, Joan
"Nathan Horwitt, 92; His Designs Included The Movado Watch "
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'', June 20, 1990. Accessed January 8, 2009. Esther Antin Untermeyer, Moshe Brodetzky, Herzel Kranz, William Perl, Paul S. Riebenfeld and

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. Senator

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declined the award due in protest of it also being awarded to Falwell. In 1983, industrialist Eryk Spektor, chairman of the New York-based Jabotinsky Foundation, created and funded a $100,000 award named the Jabotinsky Prize - Shield of Jerusalem (also known as the Defender of Jerusalem Prize) to honour individuals, Jewish or non-Jewish, who are judged to have done the most in the previous two years "for the defense of the rights of the Jewish people." The $100,000 prize was shared by US Senator

(posthumously), Soviet Jewish activist

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, and former French Cabinet Minister

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in 1983 and US Ambassador

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and

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in 1985. In 1986 former President of Costa Rica

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, former Swedish deputy prime minister

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, and Soviet dissident

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shared the award. Israeli philosopher and former Lehi activist

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was awarded the prize for 1987/1988. Other recipients have included former Soviet dissident

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, industrialist Reuben Hecht, the LIBI Fund charity assisting Israeli soldiers, Israeli prime minister

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, ''

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'' editor

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, conductor

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, US secretary of state

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, and civil rights activist

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Jabotinsky Order of Israel awards

The Jabotinsky Prize for Literature and Research is an award given by the Jabotinsky Order of Israel for outstanding achievements in the sphere of literature and research every two years. Among the winners of the award are:

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, Chaim Lazar-Lithuanian, Yehoshua Yavin, Abba Ahimair, David Niv,

Yigal Yadin Yigael Yadin ( ; 20 March 1917 – 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, soldier and politician. He was the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Deputy Prime Minister from 1977 to 1981. Biography Yigael Sukenik (later Y ...

, Menachem Sarid,

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Uzi Narkis Uzi Narkiss (; January 6, 1925 – December 17, 1997) was an Israeli general. Narkiss was commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) units in the Central Region during the 1967 Six-Day War. Narkiss appears in the famous photograph of Defense Mi ...

Naomi Shemer Naomi Shemer (; July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was a leading Israeli musician and songwriter, hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry." Her song " Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"), written in 1967, became an unoffic ...

, Moshe Yegar,

Herzl Rosenblum Herzl Rosenblum (; 14 August 1903 – 1 February 1991), also known as Herzl Vardi, was an Israeli journalist and politician. A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he worked as editor of Yedioth Ahronoth for more than 35 years. ...

Ephraim Kishon Ephraim Kishon (; August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was a Hungarian-born Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Academy Award, Oscar-nominated film director. He was one of the most widely read contemporary satire, satirists in Israel a ...

, Yitzhak Oren, Yosef Nadava, Yaakov Ha'alyon,

Uri Milstein Uri Milstein (; born 29 February 1940) is an Israeli historian and philosopher, specializing in military history. Biography Uri Milstein was born in Tel Aviv to Avraham Milstein, a volunteer in the British army in World War II, and Sarah Milstei ...

, Esther Vitkon, Dosh, Avigdor Shahan,

Yehuda Blum Yehuda Zvi Blum (; born 2 October 1931) is an Israeli professor of law and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations from 1978 to 1984. Biography Yehuda Z. Blum was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 193 ...

Isaac Ramba Isaac ( ; ; ; ; ; ) is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baháʼí Faith. Isaac first appears in the Torah, in which he is the son of ...

Jeremiah Halpern Captain Jeremiah Halpern (; also known as Yirmiyahu Halpern and Yirmiyahu Halperin) (b. Smolensk, Russia, 1901; d. Tel Aviv, Israel, 1962) was a Revisionist Zionist leader in Palestine who first came to prominence when he served as '' aide de cam ...

, Jacob Winshel and Yehiam Weitz. The Jabotinsky Order Life Achievement Award, is awarded annually by the Jabotinsky Order of Israel to an outstanding personality in public, academic or professional life.

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