The Guardian of Zion Award is an annual award given since 1997 to individuals who have been supportive of the State of Israel. It is awarded at the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University, where the prize recipient gives the keynote address.
| Year | Recipient | Nationality | Profession | Speech | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Professional writer Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1986) | ||||
| 1998 | United States | Professional writer and 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner | |||
| 1999 | United States | Former New York Times editor Former New York Daily News columnist | |||
| 2000 | Historian and writer | ||||
| 2001 | United States | Professional writer | |||
| 2002 | United States | The Washington Post columnist | http://www.biu.ac.il/Spokesman/Krauthammer-text.html | ||
| 2003 | United States | http://www.biu.ac.il/Spokesman/Pressrel/Wisse.pdf | |||
| 2004 | Filmmaker and writer | ||||
| 2005 | United States | Author, journalist and speechwriter 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner | |||
| 2006 | United States | Author and historian | |||
| 2007 | Norman Podhoretz | United States | Author, columnist | ||
| 2008 | David Be'eri, Mordechai Eliav, Rabbi Yehuda Maly | Israel | [1] | ||
| 2009 | Caroline Glick | Israel | Journalist[2] | ||
| 2010 | Malcolm Hoenlein | United States | Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations[3] | ||
| 2012 | |||||
| 2013 | |||||
| 2017 | National Security Advisor | ||||
| 2018 | |||||
| 2019 | |||||
| 2022 | United States Ambassador to Israel |