The B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem has announced the recipients of its Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage for 2026.

The B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem has announced the recipients of its Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage for 2026.

Award winners:

Written media: Zev Stub, Jewish World reporter for The Times of Israel. He won the award for a series of articles on Jewish communities in France and Canada, immigration to Israel, the Birthright program and on Israeli and Jewish academia.

Broadcast media: Tamar Ish Shalom for her Jewish People Policy Institute podcast, “Jewish Crossroads” dealing with the effects of Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, on U.S. Jewry and its relations to Israel.

Lifetime achievement Award: Oren Nahari, anchor and editor of “Shabbat with Oren Nahari” on Kan Reshet Bet radio and foreign news editor (1985-2016) Israel Broadcasting Authority.

Zev Stub has been The Times of Israel’s Diaspora reporter since November 2024. He has also written for The Jerusalem Post, JTA and Tablet. Previously, he founded and ran Janglo.net, which was the largest online community for English speakers in Israel. Stub made aliyah from Chicago and graduated in 2000 from Yeshiva University in New York with a degree in business.

Tamar Ish Shalom is one of Israel’s most prominent journalists and news anchors, with a long-standing focus on social issues and public life, and extensive experience working at the intersection of media, leadership and civil society in Israel and the Jewish world. Currently, Ish Shalom serves as a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), where she leads a flagship project examining how the events of Oct. 7 and the ongoing war are reshaping the Jewish identity of American Jews. As part of this project, she created and hosts the podcast Jewish Crossroads, which features in-depth conversations with leading voices in American Jewry about identity, community and the evolving Israel-Diaspora relationship in a post-Oct. 7 world.

Oren Nahari is a prominent Israeli journalist, foreign news commentator and author with over 35 years of experience in public broadcasting. He is widely recognized for his deep expertise in world politics, history and international relations.

Since its establishment in 1992, the B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism has recognized excellence in reporting on contemporary Diaspora Jewish communities and on the state of Israel-Diaspora relations in Israeli print, broadcast and online media. The award is widely recognized as the most prestigious prize in the Israeli media industry for Diaspora reportage and was established to help strengthen the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora. The award highlights the important contributions the media can make toward strengthening the relationship between Israel and world Jewry by encouraging quality reporting on Diaspora communities and Israel-Diaspora relations.

The distinguished members of the award jury include Dr. Yehudith Auerbach, former head of the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies Bar Ilan University; Yaron Deckel, regional director for Canada, The Jewish Agency for Israel and past award winner; Professor Uzi Rebhun, Shlomo Argov chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations, head, Division of Jewish Demography & Statistics, The A. Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry and director, Florence Melton Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Professor Gabriela Shalev, former Israel ambassador to the United Nations; Dr. Ilan Shchori, research fellow at Haifa University and research associate at Ben Gurion University, senior advisor and special representative of the International president of B’nai B’rith; Journalist Yair Sheleg; Asher Weill, publisher and editor of “Ariel” The Israel Review of Arts and Letters (2003-1981).

The award is presented in memory of the late Wolf Matsdorf, editor of the World Center’s journal “Leadership Briefing” and a journalist in Israel and Australia, and his wife Hilda, a pioneer in social work in both countries. The Lifetime achievement Award is presented in memory of the late Luis and Trudi Schydlowsky, heads of the Jewish community in Peru. An award ceremony will be held later this year.

For further information, please contact:

Golan Yossifon, spokesperson, B’nai B’rith – +972525625135

Alan Schneider, director, B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem: 02-6251743; 052-5536441