The Henrietta Szold Award,Hadassah’s highest honor, is bestowed in recognition of dedicated service to the Jewish people, to Israel, and to humanity. The 2016 Henrietta Szold Award is presented to Malcolm Hoenlein, known for his leadership as the Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the instrumental role he has played assisting so many Jewish organizations worldwide.
Previous Award Winners
1949 Eleanor Roosevelt
1950 Selman A. Waksman
1951 Harry S. Truman
1952 Herbert S. Lehman
1953 William O. Douglas
1954 Monnet B. Davis
1955 Mordecai M. Kaplan
1956 Isadore I. Rabi
1957 Louis Lipsky
1958 David Ben-Gurion
1959 Rahel Yanait Ben Zvi
1960 Education- Martin Buber Zionism- Nahum Goldmann Medicine- Mary Woodward Lasker Youth Welfare- Leonard W. Mayo
Public Service- Golda Meir
1961 No award
1962 No award
1963 Albert B. Sabin
1964 Queen Mother Elizabeth of Belgium Moshe Sharett
1965 Hubert Humphrey
1966 No award
1967 Michael E. DeBakey
1968 Dorothy DeRothschild (London)– for Rothschild family 1968 Henie Heiman-Elkind – for Hadassah Nurses Arthur Goldberg
1969 Youth Aliyah Christian Bernard'1970 Zalman Shazar
1971 No award
1972 Soviet Jewry
1973 The People of the Netherlands
1974 Teddy Kollek
1975 No award
1976 Sir Harold Wilson
1977 No award
1978 Kalman J. Mann
1979 Simon Weisenthal
1980 Jacobo Timerman
1981 Ida Nudel
1982 Yitzhac Navon
1983 Jeanne Kirkpatrick
1984 Sallie and Samuel Lewis
1985 Elie Wiesel
1986 Paul C. Lauterbur
1987 Natan Sharansky
1988 Claude Lanzmann
1989 Max Kampelman
Renee S. De Epelbaum
1990 Edgar Bronfman
Joseph Gruss
1991 Zubin Mehta
1992 Uri Lubrani
1993 Vladka and Benjamin Meed
1994 Shoshana Shoubin Cardin
1995 Yitzhak Rabin Shimon Perez
1996 Simone Veil
1997 Chaim Herzog
1998 Charlotte Jacobson
1999 Hillary Rodham Clinton
2000 Ronald Lauder
2001 Shmuel Penchas
2002 Ehud Olmert
2003 Bernice Tannenbaum
Ilan Ramon (z”l)
2005 Daniel and Sheila Kurtzer
2006 Blu and Irving “Yitz” Greenberg
2007 Michael R. Bloomberg
2008 Eitan Wertheimer
2010 No award
2012 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
2014 Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps
