Awards for the institute students

Ben Tor

Shraga-Diker

The Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University awards a variety of prizes to outstanding students. These prizes are designed to recognize exceptional academic achievements, encourage research excellence and support the next generation of researchers in Israel and around the world.

The Ben Tor Award

The prestigious Ben Tor Award, given annually at the Institute of Earth Sciences, is intended to encourage research in Earth Sciences and support outstanding research students in their field of work. A committee of researchers from a variety of fields at the Institute selects the winning candidate.

The candidates for the award are PhD students from all higher education institutions in Israel and abroad.

The award  ceremony occurs annually and features a lecture by a prominent international speaker.

The  prize of NIS 10,000 is courtesy of the generous contribution by Prof. Miriam Kastner, the widow of the late Prof. Yaakov Ben Tor

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The Shraga-Diker Award

The Shraga Dicker Prize commemorates the names of the late Theodore Dicker and Menachem Shraga, research students at the Institute of Earth Sciences who fell in the Six Day War. The prize is intended to encourage research in the fields of geology and is awarded annually to outstanding graduate students in the field. The ceremony is held every year near the time of the memorial ceremony for the war dead from the Six Day War. The award committee consists of leading researchers at the institute in the field of Geology, and the award was donated by the family of Menachem Shraga and the Earth Sciences Institute.

List of award winners by years: