Bar-Ilan University confers "Honorary Doctorate" degrees, "Presidential Awards of Distinction" and "Lifetime Achievement Awards" to individuals who have made their mark in Israel and abroad, in science and culture, government and economy, Jewish education and defense, and other significant areas, as well as to devoted University friends who have contributed to its development and advancement.
ד"ר אילנה דיין
חיים ילין
פרופ' חיים סידר
אביב גפן
הרב אליהו בלומנצויג
רוזה ניסנבאום דה פלדמן
עמותת "אחים לחיים"
שלמה בראבא, גידי גוב, דב גליקמן, מוני מושונוב ואבי קושניר
רא"ל אביב כוכבי
סיגלית לנדאו
פרופ' ג'ואן סטייץ
עמותת עתידים
הרב יעקב מדן
חוה אלברשטיין
יעל ארד
מלכה בינה
ד"ר ארנה ברי
פרופ' רות ארנון
ג'וליה זהר
גייל פרופ
גלילה רון-פדר-עמית
Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond DBE
Prof. M. Stanley Whittingham
Dr. Tal Zaks
Haim Taib
Arthur Cohn
Yossi Cohen
Tzohar Rabbinical Organization
Idan Raichel
Dr. Miriam Adelson
Lieutenant General (ret.) Gadi Eisenkot
Israel Harel
Sami and Itzhak Sagol
Rabbi Kalman Samuels
The Reim Duo – Yisrael Gottesdiener and Benny Rosenbaum
Dr. Zipora Schorr
Dr. Mordecai D. Katz
Pastor Friedrich-Wilhelm Fritz May
Irving Schneider
Marcus Rosenberg
Rabbi Dr. Binyamin (Benny) Lau
Agi Mishol
Ronnie Stern
The IDF Orchestra
Evelyn and Dr. Shmuel Katz
Yoram Cohen
Malcolm Isaac Hoenlein
Etgarim-Challenge
Award of Distinction
Prof. Shlomo Havlin
Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar
Prof. Avram Hershko
Dvora (Halter) Kedar
Tal Brody
Prof. Shafi (Shafrira) Goldwasser
Dr. David Dangoor
Nily Falic
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Magen David Adom
Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein
Prof. Serge Haroche
Nurit Hirsch
Miriam Peretz
NASA Administrator Chalres F. Bolden Jr.
Isi Liebler
Bnei Akiva
Israeli President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin
Raymond Ackerman
Dr. Sam Alter
Tzipora Mizrahi-Carasso & Ariel Carasso
Dr. Joseph Ciechanover
Lt. General Benjamin Gantz
Yehoram Gaon
Sir Andre Geim
Blu Greenberg
Sergio Grosskopf
Rabbanit Chana Henkin
Colonel Richard Kemp CBE
Rabbi Prof. Nachum L. Rabinovitch
Taglit-Birthright Israel
Laurent Trau
Raya Strauss Bendror
Emunah, National Religious Women's Organization
Prof. Martin Karplus
Ariel Kor
Prof. Michael Levitt
Levy Yitzhak Rachmani
Johanne Sternthal
Rabbi Prof. Moshe David Tendler
Chaim Topol
Prof. Arieh Warshel
Shmuel Atzmon-Wircer
Susanne Czuker
Efraim Halevy
Morris Kahn
Mario Moshe Levy
Prof. Edward C. Prescott
Selim Yehoshua Salti
Prof. Dan Shechtman
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Shlomo Bar-Shavit
Angelica Berrie
Michael (Mick) Lawrence Davis
Prof. Albert Fert
Marc Gold
Hubert Leven
Malka Puterkovsky
Rabbi Haim Sabato
Shlomo Yanai
Eli Amir
IDF Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi
Justice Hadassa Ben-ltto
Rabbi Haim Drukman
Marcos David Katz
Galia Maor
Prof. Luc Montagnier
Barbara Landis Seid
Justice Prof. Aharon Barak
Rabbi Chananya Chollak
Prof. Robert F. Curl
Eli Hurvitz
Lea Koenig Stolper
Alvin T. Levitt
Cherna Shavers Moskowitz
Barre Seid
Norman Sternthal
Romie Tager QC
Prof. Ada Yonath
Father Patrick Desbois
Aryeh "Lava" Eliav
David Fuhrer
Prof. Ruth Gavison
Prof. Walter Kohn
Prof. Roger David Kornberg
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm
Meir Shamir
Alan Zekelman
Miriam Zohar
Allan Friedland
Adv. Vair Green
Prof. Theodor W. Hansch
Maurice Kanbar
S. Lee Kohrman
Prof. Yuan T. Lee
Aharon Megged
Rabbanit Rachel Neriya
Avi Shaked
Prof. Rabbi Avraham Steinberg
Lifetime Achievement Award
Israeli President Shimon Peres
Prof. Aaron Ciechanover
Nochi Dankner
Abraham Foxman
Patricia Friedland
Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman
Everard Goodman
Menashe Kadishman
Marc Rich
Jack Slomovic
Prof. Robert J. Aumann
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Nairn Dangoor
Joseph Fetter
Mina Goodman
Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman
Harvey M. Krueger
Prof. K. Alex Muller
Ephraim Propp
Aliki Rzepka
Jacob Shachar
Angela Shamoon
Mortimer Zuckerman
The Gesher Theatre
Lifetime Achievement Award
S. Daniel Abraham
President's Award for Outstanding Educational Projects in Israel
The Atidim Foundation, under the chairmanship of Eitan Wertheimer
Prof. Richard Axel
Jose Maria Aznar
Prof. Alan Dershowitz
Australian Foreign Minister the Hon. Alexander Downer
Eng. Israel Feldman
Samuel Gewurz
David Gradel
Teddy Kollek
Barbara Kort
Benny Landa
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
Ehud Manor
Conrad Morris
Eli Reifman
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Hon. Irwin Cotler
Josef (Yoske) Achituv
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Shaul Mofaz
Father Takeji Otsuki
Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks
Moshe Shamir
Gabi Weisfeld
Award of Distinction
Barbara Kort
Ronnie Benin-Barr
Bronia Hacker
Amos Hakham
Sarni Shamoon
Rabbi Prof. David Weiss Halivni
Prof. Xu Xin
Presidential Award of Honor
Aharon Dahan
Lifetime Achievement Award
Benny Landa
Award of Distinction
Drs. Vivienne and Maurice Wohl C.B.E.
Lady Amelie Jakobovits
Prof. Alan J. Heeger
Cynthia Ozick
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Anna Hitter Webb
Vivienne Wohl
Lifetime Achievement Award
Sarni Shamoon
Awards of Distinction
S. Daniel Abraham
Aharon and Rachel Dahan
Leslie L. Gonda
Jesselson Family
Drs. Mordecai D. and Monique C. Katz
Jack and Gitta Nagel
Dr. Edward Steinberg
Max and Anna Webb
Elaine Bloom
Prof. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Rabbi Dr. Irving Greenberg
Prof. Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch
Dr. David Jeselsohn
Anne Lehmann
Prof. Deborah Lipstadt
Gitta Nagel
Elyakim Rubinstein
Nina Avidar Weiner
Maurice Wohl C.B.E.
Prof. A.B. Yehoshua
Rabbi Yehoshua Vogel
Award of Distinction
Ruth and Baruch Rappaport
Alumnus of the Year
IDF Chief of the Gen. Staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz
Prof. Raymond V. Damadian
Governor Gray Davis
Prof. Jacob A. Frenkel
Australian Prime Minister John
Howard
Tova Han
Eliahu lzakson
Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein
Shlomo Moussaieff
Peter Rzepka
Moshe Sanbar
Prof. Werner (Abraham David) Silberstein
Max Webb
Joseph Frohlich West
Lifetime Achievement Award
Rabbi Prof. Emanuel Rackman
Dina Berniker
Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen
Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Rachel Dahan
Jack Gradel
Dr. Moshe Green
Maj. Gen. (res.) David lvry
Prof. Brian D. Josephson
Dr. Mordecai D. Katz
Pastor Friedrich-Wilhelm Fritz May
Irving Schneider
Marcus Rosenberg
Rabbi Haim David Halevy
Fred Kort
Yaakov Neeman
Joseph Orgler
Orna Porat
Justice Meir Shamgar
Naomi Shemer
Henry Taub
Lorenz Israel Cederbaum
Dr. Donald J. Cohen
Ann S. Deshe
Prof. Menachem Elon
Isidore Falk
Chaim Fraiman
Czech President Vaclav Havel
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
Rabbi Yosef Kapach
Mira Koschitzky
Natan Sharansky
Sigmund Strochlitz
Prof. Aharon Appelfeld
Dr. Ruben E. Beraja
Zalman Chaim Bernstein
Prof. Leo Esaki
Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer
Dr. Juergen Luethje
Sam Sebba
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Stanley Abramovitch
Mendel Aviv
Edward I. Baker
Dr. Samuel Broder
Charles Hughes
Dr. Monique C. Katz
Gabriel Levine
Eric Samson
Dr. Milton Shiffman
Melvin Stein
Dr. Laszlo Tauber
Selik Wengrowsky
Marion Wiesel
Prof. Meir Wilchek
Ernst Cramer
US Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.
Thomas O. Hecht
Prof. Lawrence R. Klein
Dan Levenson
Arthur L. Liman
Ingeborg Hanna Rennert
Samuel Schnitzer
John H. Slade
Prof. H. Eugene Stanley
Shoshanna S. Cardin
Dr. Harry Ginsburg
Zevulun Hammer
Judith and Gerson Leiber
Robert Lifton
Manfred H. Meyer
Jack Nagel
Naphtali Lipschutz
Prof. Michael Pepper
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Rabbi Dr. David Moshe Rosen
Edmundo Safdie
Jay Schottenstein
Saul Schottenstein
Lady Margaret Thatcher
Aharon Dahan
Charles Dimston
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ruslyn Khasbulatov
Lord Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Jakobovits
Jacob Barry Kowarsky
Prof. Bernard Lewis
Arnold Lorber
Ian Macdonald Mackenzie
Loyd Harvey McNicol
Avraham Moshe Naftal
Dr. Hasia Yoffe-Naftal
Prof. Yuri Osipov
Pearl Resnick
Dr. Edward L. Steinberg
Dr. Gebhard Ziller
Samuel Cula-Rosenblat
Maria Finkle
Jacqueline Goldman
Dr. Ronald Hoffman
Rabbi Carl Klein
South African President Frederik W. de Klerk
Dr. Manfred Lehmann
Alfred Mackler
Henry G. Plitt
Ruth Rappaport
Italian Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff
Dr. Tova Comet-Walerstein
Prof. Joel D. Cooper
Jerome I. Feldman
Prof. Herbert A. Hauptman
Prof. A. Leo Levin
Prof. Igor Makarov
Prof. Rem Petrov
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
Herman Wouk
Herbert Berman
Rabbi Pynchas Brener
Rena Costa
Prof. Martin Gilbert
Prof. Sheldon Lee Glashow
Solomon Krok
Abraham Krok
Lilly Shapell
Paul A. Volcker
Lord Young
Jacobo Zabludovsky
Michael Floersheim
Dina Halpern
Benjamin Netanyahu
Dr. Robert Barton Nussenblatt
Prof. Emanuel R. Piore
Prof. Sir Randolph Quirk
Moshe Unna
Joseph Berman
Dr. Armand Hammer
Max M. Kampelman
Prof. Ezra Zion Melamed
Roy R. Neuberger
Prof. Isador Isaac Rabi
Blanca Roven Wintner
Prof. Rosalyn S. Yalow
Prof. Morton Bloomfield
Dr. Josef Burg
Prof. Irwin Cotler
Leona Finkler
Thomas J. Klutznik
Mayor Edward Koch
Venezuelan President Dr. Jaime Lusinchi
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres
Joseph Solomon
Lord Rayner
US Vice President George Bush
Prof. Charles Fefferman
Prof. Abe Gelbart
Henri Glasberg
Charles Krown
Irving Stone
Herbert Tanzer
US Gov. Pete Wilson
Rena Zimand
Louis Bloomfield
Neri Bloomfield
Henry Knobil
Naftali Lavi
Clarence D. Long
Bruce Rappaport
Joseph Tanenbaum
S. Daniel Abraham
Dr. Leon Fill
Heinz Galinski
Prof. Nehama Leibowitz
Sir Neville Mott
Prof. A. Neher
Dr. Arno A. Penzias
Sir Michael Sobell
Jerome L. Stern
Morton Tartar
Sir Leonard Wolfson
David Zimand
Arthur Belfer
Diane Belfer
Mayor Tom Bradley
Arnold Finkler
Prof. Simcha Noah Kramer
Stanley Lewis
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Dr. ltzhak Ernst Nebenzahl
Shlomo Zalman Shragai
Rabbi Mordechai Kirshblum
Prof. Emanuel Levinas
Dr. Irving Moskowitz
Philip Slomovitz
Jack D. Weiler
Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren
Ludwig Jesselson
Hermann Merkin
Lord Rothschild
Prof. Dov Sadan
Jane Stern
Philip F. Vineberg
Senator Frank Church
Lazarus Phillips
Prof. Raul Prebish
Moshe Schnitzer
Simone Veil
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
Nissim D. Gaon
Arthur Hubert
Dr. Yitshak Kister
Abraham Spiegel
Frieda Stallman
Max Stollman
Shimshon Feldman
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Chaim Herzog
Sir Isaac Wolfson
Rabbi Dr. Max Gruenwald
Emeritus Chief Rabbi Isaac Nissim
H. Jerome Sisselman
U.K. Premier Harold Wilson
Dr. George S. Wise
Rabbanit Sarah Herzog
Paul Zuckerman
Mayor Abraham D. Beame
Prof. Ernst Boris Chain
E. Alec Colman
William J. Levitt
Samuel S. Lunenfeld
Axel Springer
Phillip Stollman
Elie Wiesel
Rabbi Zemach M. Zambrowsky
Joseph Merton Hyman
Louis John Mintz
Albert Parker
Prof. Saul Lieberman
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir
