The Mount Zion Award is a
biennial
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award by the Mount Zion Foundation, which has its seat at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Research (IJCF) at the
University of Lucerne
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in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. The award is presented every other year close to October 28th. In 1986 the Mount Zion Foundation was created by the German Reverend Wilhelm Salberg (1925–1996), son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother. The Mount Zion Award is presented to persons of Jewish, Muslim or Christian faith, who have significantly contributed to the Jewish-Christian
dialogue
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or to the understanding of the three
Abrahamic religions
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, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, in Israel.
The presidents of the foundation, Prof. Dr. Verena Lenzen, director of the Institute for Jewish-Christian Research at the University of Lucerne, and the
abbot
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of the
Dormition Abbey
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Between 1 ...
in
Jerusalem
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, Bernhard Maria Alter OSB, present the Mount Zion Award always at the end of October or at the beginning of November, in remembrance of the Declaration on the Relation of the Catholic Church with Non-Christian Religions ''
Nostra aetate
(from Latin: "In our time") is the incipit of the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council. Passed by a vote of 2,221 to 88 of the assembled bishops, this declaration was promulgated o ...
'' of October 28, 1965.
Laureates
*1987: Dr. Mahmoud Abassi, Al-Masreq Publishing House, Shefar´am / Israel; Rose-Therese Sant, Sister of Zion, Jerusalem
*1989:
David Grossman
David Grossman ( he, דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.
Biography
David Grossman was born i ...
, author, Mevasseret Zion / Israel
*1991: Elisheva Hemker, Pastoral Officer, Haifa + Nahariya / Israel
*1993: Dr. Kirsten Stoffregen-Pedersen ("Sister Abraham"), Jerusalem
*1995: Elias und Heyam Jabbour, social worker, Shefar`Am / Israel; Yeheskel and Dalia Landau, social worker, Ramle + Jerusalem
*1997:
Sumaya Farhat Naser
Sumaya Farhat Naser ( ar, سمية فرحات ناصر, born 11 June 1948 in Bir Zeit) is a Palestinian Christian peace activist in the West Bank.
She attended ''Talitha Kumi'', a boarding school in Beit Jala which was founded by Lutheran ...
, lecturer at the University of
Bir Zeit
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; Yitzhak Frankenthal, director of Neviot Shalom, Jerusalem
*1999:
Shmuel Toledano, politician, Jerusalem; Ass`ad Araidy,
Druze
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, mayor of Maghar in
Galilee
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*2001: Kifaya Jadah; ; Emil Shoufany
*2003: "Breaking Barriers", Jerusalem/Tel Aviv
*2005: Rabbi Dr.
David Rosen
*2007: Sr. Monika Düllmann, Hôpital Saint-Louis de Jérusalem
*2009: Dr. Nedal Jayousi, Palestinian House for Professional Solutions, Ramallah;
*2011:
Friends of the Earth Middle East
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; Gidon Bromberg (Israeli Director), Munqeth Mehyar (Jordanian Director), Nader Al-Khateeb (Palestinian Director)
*2013: Mrs. Yisca Harani, lecturer, researcher and inter-religious activist. And, Mrs. Margratte Karam.
*2015: Fr. Dr. David Neuhaus, Patriarchal Vicar fo
Hebrew speaking Catholics Coordinator of th
Pastoral care of migrants
*2017:
Amos Oz
Amos Oz ( he, עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onw ...
, writer, intellectual, professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba
*2019:
Gadi Gvaryahu
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* Gadi, Nepal, a village development committee in Parsa District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal
* Gadi Bayalkada, a village development committee in Surkhet District in the Bheri Zone of mid-western Nepal
Pe ...
from
Tag Meir organization and
Michael Krupp
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Given name "Michael"
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.
*2022:
Israel Yuval
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Yehuda Bacon
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Biography
Yehuda Bacon was born into a Hasidic (Orthodox Jewish) family. In the fall of 1942, at the age of 13, Bacon was de ...
.
See also
*
List of religion-related awards
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See also
* Lists o ...
References
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External links
Mount Zion Award
Christian and Jewish interfaith dialogue
Religion-related awards