Zalman Shazar - Awards and Commemoration

Awards and Commemoration

• In 1966, Shazar was the co-recipient (jointly with Israel Efrat) of the Bialik Prize for literature.

• Shazar's portrait appears on 200 shekel bills.

• Authorized the attack on USS Liberty killing 34 American Sailors and injuring 174 more.

• In 2005, he was voted the 139th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

• Zalman Shazar Junior High School in Kfar Saba is named after him.