Vivian Silver Impact Award

The award was created by the family of Vivian Silver and launched and coordinated with the assistance of the New Israel Fund.

[2][3] The award is granted to an Arab woman and an Israeli woman who embody the values and actions of Vivian Silver in terms of the following:[2] Vivian Silver was a Canadian-Israeli peace activist who was killed by Hamas terrorist during October 7 Hama led attack on Israel when she was at Kibbutz Be’eri, a kibbutz in southern Israel.

The partnership empowered Bedouin women in the Israeli region to access good paying jobs acceptable to their traditional communities.

The Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment, and Cooperation (AJEEC) describes the efforts of Silver as:[4][1]For more than five decades, Vivian Silver dedicated her efforts and passion to bringing people together in dignity, cooperation, and mutual respect.

With a keen eye and an open heart, she fostered equality – between women and men, between Arabs and Jews – in Israeli society, and actively strived for peace in the region.In 2024, the first recipients of the award, from out of more than one hundred candidates, were Dr. Rula Hardal and May Pundak, the co-directors of the A Land for All, an Israeli-Palestinian peace movement, for their dedication to the promotion of two sovereign states, Israel and Palestine, that will work in "together to ensure democracy and security for both peoples".