Billy Graham, Henry M. Jackson, Jacob Javits, Daniel Moynihan, Philip M. Klutznick, Edward Teller, Leon Uris, Eli Wiesel, Danny Kaye, Jerry Falwell, Elmo R. Zumwalt,[1] Claude Pepper,[2] Hart N. Hasten,[3] Avraham Soltes,[4] Nathan George Horwitt,[5] Esther Antin Untermeyer,[6] Moshe Brodetzky, Herzel Kranz, William Perl,[7] Paul S. Riebenfeld and David Horowitz.
"[9] The $100,000 prize was shared by US Senator Henry M. Jackson (posthumously), Soviet Jewish activist Iosif Begun, and former French Cabinet Minister Simone Veil in 1983[10] and US Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and Operation Moses in 1985.
[11] In 1986 former President of Costa Rica Luis Alberto Monge, former Swedish deputy prime minister Per Ahlmark, and Soviet dissident Eliyahu Essas shared the award.
[13] Other recipients have included former Soviet dissident Ida Nudel, industrialist Reuben Hecht, the LIBI Fund charity assisting Israeli soldiers, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir,[14] New York Times editor A.M. Rosenthal, conductor Zubin Mehta, US secretary of state George Shultz, and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
[16] Among the winners of the award are: Benjamin Netanyahu, Iddo Netanyahu, Chaim Lazar-Lithuanian, Yehoshua Yavin, Abba Ahimair, David Niv, Yigal Yadin, Menachem Sarid, Yaakov Orland, Uzi Narkis, Naomi Shemer, Moshe Yegar, Herzl Rosenblum, Ephraim Kishon, Yitzhak Oren, Yosef Nadava, Yaakov Ha'alyon, Uri Milstein, Esther Vitkon, Dosh, Avigdor Shahan, Yehuda Blum, Isaac Ramba, Jeremiah Halpern, Jacob Winshel and Yehiam Weitz.