The Mount Zion Award is a
biennial award by the Mount Zion Foundation, which has its seat at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Research (IJCF) at the
University of Lucerne
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in
Switzerland
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. The award is presented every other year close to October 28th. In 1986 the Mount Zion Foundation was created by the German Reverend Wilhelm Salberg (1925–1996), son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother. The Mount Zion Award is presented to persons of Jewish, Muslim or Christian faith, who have significantly contributed to the Jewish-Christian
dialogue
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or to the understanding of the three
Abrahamic religions
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, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, in Israel.
The presidents of the foundation, Prof. Dr. Verena Lenzen, director of the Institute for Jewish-Christian Research at the University of Lucerne, and the
abbot
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of the
Dormition Abbey in
Jerusalem
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, Bernhard Maria Alter OSB, present the Mount Zion Award at the end of October or at the beginning of November, in remembrance of the Declaration on the Relation of the Catholic Church with Non-Christian Religions ''
Nostra aetate
(from Latin: "In our time"), or the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, is an official declaration of the Second Vatican Council, an Catholic ecumenical councils, ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. I ...
'' of October 28, 1965.
Laureates
*1987: Dr. Mahmoud Abassi, Al-Masreq Publishing House, Shefar´am / Israel; Rose-Therese Sant, Sister of Zion, Jerusalem
*1989:
David Grossman, author, Mevasseret Zion / Israel
*1991: Elisheva Hemker, Pastoral Officer, Haifa + Nahariya / Israel
*1993: Dr. Kirsten Stoffregen-Pedersen ("Sister Abraham"), Jerusalem
*1995: Elias und Heyam Jabbour, social worker, Shefar`Am / Israel; Yeheskel and Dalia Landau, social worker, Ramle + Jerusalem
*1997:
Sumaya Farhat Naser, lecturer at the University of
Bir Zeit; Yitzhak Frankenthal, director of Neviot Shalom, Jerusalem
*1999:
Shmuel Toledano, politician, Jerusalem; Ass`ad Araidy,
Druze
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, mayor of Maghar in
Galilee
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''Galilee'' encompasses the area north of the Mount Carmel-Mount Gilboa ridge and ...
*2001: Kifaya Jadah; ; Emil Shoufany
*2003: "Breaking Barriers", Jerusalem/Tel Aviv
*2005: Rabbi Dr.
David Rosen
*2007: Sr. Monika Düllmann, Hôpital Saint-Louis de Jérusalem
*2009: Dr. Nedal Jayousi, Palestinian House for Professional Solutions, Ramallah;
Daniel Rossing, Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations
*2011:
Friends of the Earth Middle East; Gidon Bromberg (Israeli Director), Munqeth Mehyar (Jordanian Director), Nader Al-Khateeb (Palestinian Director)
*2013: Mrs. Yisca Harani, lecturer, researcher and inter-religious activist. And, Mrs. Margratte Karam.
*2015: Fr. Dr. David Neuhaus, Patriarchal Vicar fo
Hebrew speaking Catholics Coordinator of th
Pastoral care of migrants
*2017:
Amos Oz
Amos Oz (; born Amos Klausner (); 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a pro ...
, writer, intellectual, professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba
*2019:
Gadi Gvaryahu from
Tag Meir organization and
Michael Krupp.
*2022:
Israel Yuval and
Yehuda Bacon.
See also
*
List of religion-related awards
This list of religion-related awards is an index to articles about notable awards related to religion given by institutions other than the churches. Awards by churches are covered by the list of ecclesiastical decorations.
See also
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References
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External links
Mount Zion Award
Christian and Jewish interfaith dialogue
Religion-related awards