Awards for the institute students
Ben Tor
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
2021 Dr. Yoav Ben-Dor and Dr. Avishai Abo
2019 Dr. Yael Kiro
2018 Mr. Ido Sirota
2017 Dr. Shahar Shani-Kadmiel
2016 Dr. Shalev Siman-Tov
2015 Dr. Uri Ryb
2014 Dr. Yael Kiro
2013 Dr. Yoav Rosenberg
2012 Dr. Navot Morag
2011 Dr. Onn Crouvi
2010 Dr. Adi Torfstein
2009 Dr. Yaron Beeri
2008 Dr. Yoram Katz
2007 Dr. Uri Schattner
2006 Dr. Revital Bookman
2005 Dr. Tsafrir Levi
2004 Dr. Yuval Bartov
2003 Dr. Ari Matmon
The Shraga-Diker Prize
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:
2022 Lilach Gonen, Ravi Daud
2021 May Laur and Ader Glazer
2019 Ben Dor Yoav and Weiner Shlomi
2018 Melzer Amit and Derbsi Yaniv
2017 Sirota Ido
2016 Elazar Oded
2015 Abu Avishi
2014 Rinat Yair and Shalev Neta
2013 Shalev Siman Tov
2012 Zlatkin Olga
2011 Yaki Weiss
2010 Curzon Itai
2009 Ron Shaar
2008 Alyssa Keegan
2007 Uri Ryb and Tami Zilberman
2006 Morag Navot and Ofra Stern
2005 Itai Habib and Yarden Mekeitan
2004 Keren Kolodner and Ofra Klein
2003 Yoram Katz and Amir Sagi
2002 Kruvi On and Ken-Thor Revital
2001 Shaked Yoni and Bartov Yuval
2000 Zafran Sarah and Moshkin Amit
1999 Matmon Ari and Stanislavsky Eyal
1998 Abelson Meir
1997 Lansky Nadav