![Kakal Street Karmiel was one of the first cities in Israel to be established according to an urban master plan.[3] It was built as part of the Central Galilee Development Project. Work began in 1963, and the official inauguration ceremony took place in October 1964.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110831164127im_/http://cdn7.wn.com/pd/fc/8c/2fe4106543b6ae786319e2265cdc_grande.jpg "Kakal Street Karmiel was one of the first cities in Israel to be established according to an urban master plan.[3] It was built as part of the Central Galilee Development Project. Work began in 1963, and the official inauguration ceremony took place in October 1964.")
![The world's largest solar parabolic dish at the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center.[208] Israel's eight public universities are subsidized by the state.[205][209] The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel's oldest university, houses the Jewish National and University Library, the world's largest repository of books on Jewish subjects.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110831164127im_/http://cdn9.wn.com/pd/4c/14/114fe9f6dbb2987b34a69fd7c409_grande.jpg "The world's largest solar parabolic dish at the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center.[208] Israel's eight public universities are subsidized by the state.[205][209] The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel's oldest university, houses the Jewish National and University Library, the world's largest repository of books on Jewish subjects.")
![Karmiel (Hebrew: כַּרְמִיאֵל, lit. Vineyard of God) is a city in northern Israel. Established in 1964 as a development town, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley which divides upper and lower Galilee. The city is located south of the Acre-Safed road, 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Safed and 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Acre. Karmiel has a population of 44,400,[1] although its municipality claims to have reached 50,000.[2]](http://web.archive.org./web/20110831164127im_/http://cdn4.wn.com/pd/74/1c/003596aa29f367010e92758da9d4_grande.jpg "Karmiel (Hebrew: כַּרְמִיאֵל, lit. Vineyard of God) is a city in northern Israel. Established in 1964 as a development town, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley which divides upper and lower Galilee. The city is located south of the Acre-Safed road, 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Safed and 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Acre. Karmiel has a population of 44,400,[1] although its municipality claims to have reached 50,000.[2]")
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The recipients of the prize are Israeli citizens or organizations who have displayed excellence in their field(s), or have contributed strongly to Israeli culture. The winners are selected by committees of judges, who pass on their recommendations to the Education Minister.
Prize winners are elected by ad-hoc committees, appointed by the minister of education for each category each year. Decisions of the committee must be unanimous.
The prize money was NIS 75,000 as of 2008.
As of 2009, the prize has been awarded 633 times. Prominent winners include individuals such as Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Martin Buber, Abba Eban, A. B. Yehoshua, Israel Aumann, Golda Meir, Amos Oz, Ephraim Kishon, Naomi Shemer and Teddy Kollek, and organizations such as Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Jewish Agency, Yad Vashem and Jewish National Fund. Though the prize is generally awarded to Israeli citizens only, in exceptional cases it can be awarded to non-Israelis who have held Israeli residency for many years. Zubin Mehta received a special award of the Israel Prize in 1991. Mehta is originally from India, and is Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
On occasion, the committee has been criticized for failing to award the prize to a specific individual. For example, many have expressed criticism (or regret) that the poet Natan Yonatan never received the prize.
In other cases, the recipients were reluctant to retrieve the prize. These include Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and performer Uri Zohar. In 2003, artist Moshe Gershoni informed the press that he will not shake the hands of the Prime Minister and Education Minister, and in return his prize was annulled.
Another criticism of the prize is that the large majority of winners have been male, Jewish, and secular. Although around 25% of Israel's population is non-Jewish, as of 2010 fewer than 2% of winners have been non-Jewish. These include two Arab Muslims (actor Makram Khouri and diplomat Ali Yahya), one Arab Christian (writer Emile Habibi), one Circassian (industrialist Eldin Khatukai), two Druze (qadi Amin Tarif and government official Kamal Mansour), and one French Catholic (theologian Marcel-Jacques Dubois). Awarding the prize to Habibi resulted in physicist and politician Yuval Ne'eman relinquishing his own prize.
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![Kakal Street Karmiel was one of the first cities in Israel to be established according to an urban master plan.[3] It was built as part of the Central Galilee Development Project. Work began in 1963, and the official inauguration ceremony took place in October 1964.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110831164127im_/http://cdn6.wn.com/pd/fc/8c/2fe4106543b6ae786319e2265cdc_thumb.jpg "Kakal Street Karmiel was one of the first cities in Israel to be established according to an urban master plan.[3] It was built as part of the Central Galilee Development Project. Work began in 1963, and the official inauguration ceremony took place in October 1964.")
![The world's largest solar parabolic dish at the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center.[208] Israel's eight public universities are subsidized by the state.[205][209] The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel's oldest university, houses the Jewish National and University Library, the world's largest repository of books on Jewish subjects.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110831164127im_/http://cdn8.wn.com/pd/4c/14/114fe9f6dbb2987b34a69fd7c409_thumb.jpg "The world's largest solar parabolic dish at the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center.[208] Israel's eight public universities are subsidized by the state.[205][209] The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel's oldest university, houses the Jewish National and University Library, the world's largest repository of books on Jewish subjects.")
![Karmiel (Hebrew: כַּרְמִיאֵל, lit. Vineyard of God) is a city in northern Israel. Established in 1964 as a development town, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley which divides upper and lower Galilee. The city is located south of the Acre-Safed road, 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Safed and 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Acre. Karmiel has a population of 44,400,[1] although its municipality claims to have reached 50,000.[2]](http://web.archive.org./web/20110831164127im_/http://cdn3.wn.com/pd/74/1c/003596aa29f367010e92758da9d4_thumb.jpg "Karmiel (Hebrew: כַּרְמִיאֵל, lit. Vineyard of God) is a city in northern Israel. Established in 1964 as a development town, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley which divides upper and lower Galilee. The city is located south of the Acre-Safed road, 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Safed and 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Acre. Karmiel has a population of 44,400,[1] although its municipality claims to have reached 50,000.[2]")
