Award Winners: Zev Stub (The Times of Israel) and Tamar Ish Shalom (Jewish Crossroads–JPPI)

Lifetime Achievement Award: Oren Nahari (Kan Reshet Bet)

Special Citation for Fostering Israel-Diaspora Relations through the Arts: Hanan Yovel

David Horovitz, editor-in-chief of The Times of Israel, will deliver the keynote address at the 2026 B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage ceremony. His address is titled “My Dramatic Visit to Syria: Surreal or Harbinger of Change?”

The event will take place on Thursday, June 18, 2026, at 6 p.m. Israel time at the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center in Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, following a reception at 5 p.m.

The award winners for 2026 are:

Zev Stub, Jewish World reporter for The Times of Israel (written media category), for a series of articles on Jewish communities in France and Canada, immigration to Israel, the Birthright program and on Israeli and Jewish academia.

Tamar Ish Shalom (broadcast media category) for her Jewish People Policy Institute podcast, “Jewish Crossroads,” dealing with the effects of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre on U.S. Jewry and its attitudes toward Israel.

A Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Oren Nahari, anchor and editor of “Shabbat with Oren Nahari” on Kan Reshet Bet radio and foreign news editor from 1985 to 2016 at the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

Zev Stub

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

Tamar Ish Shalom is one of Israel’s most prominent journalists and news anchors, with a long-standing focus on social issues, public life and the Jewish world. She currently 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 and Israel about identity, community and the evolving Israel-diaspora relationship in a post-Oct. 7 world.

Oren Nahari

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.

Hanan Yovel

A Special Citation for Fostering Israel-Diaspora Relations through the Arts in Memory of Naomi Shemer will be presented to prominent Israeli singer and composer Hanan Yovel. The citation, established in 2014, has been presented previously to singer and songwriter Nurit Hirsh (2014), David D’Or (2015), Idan Raichel (2016), David Broza (2017), Yehoram Gaon (2019), Shalva Band (2020), Danny Sanderson (2021), Shuli Natan (2022), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (2023), Ilanit (2024) and Effi Netzer (2025). 

About The Award

Since its establishment in 1992, the B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem 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 at Bar-Ilan University; Yaron Deckel, regional director for Canada at The Jewish Agency for Israel and past award winner; Professor Uzi Rebhun, Shlomo Argov chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations, head of the Division of Jewish Demography & Statistics at The Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry and director of the Florence Melton Institute at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Professor Gabriela Shalev, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations; Dr. Ilan Shchori, research fellow at the University of Haifa and research associate at Ben-Gurion University, senior vice president of B’nai B’rith International; Journalist Yair Sheleg; and Asher Weill, publisher and editor of “Ariel: The Israel Review of Arts and Letters” (1981-2003).

The award is presented in memory of the late Wolf Matsdorf, editor of the B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem’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, leaders of the Jewish community in Peru.

Contact

For further information, please contact:

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

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