With sadness and hope, the family and friends of Vivian Silver established the Vivian Silver Award in 2024. The award will be granted annually to two women, one Jewish and one Palestinian, who show great promise or have demonstrated significant accomplishments in one of the areas that embody Vivian’s values and actions:

1. Building Arab-Jewish partnership in Israel

2. Promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace

3. Advancing women to decision-making and leadership positions

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.

Her life work is an example of the power of leadership and a beacon for women of all ages and backgrounds. The Vivian Silver Impact Award will ensure that her legacy of activism, persistence and hope continues into the future.

The winners are selected by a designated selection committee. Each winner will receive an award of 15,000 dollars at a public ceremony held in November, along with an announcement of the winners.

Nomination Guidelines:

• Nominees must be Palestinian or Jewish women who live in Israel or the Palestinian Territories.

• Nominations can include one individual woman or two women working together for a joint goal.

• Nominations must be submitted via the relevant form (for a single nominee or a pair).

• Nominations should include detailed information about the nominee's achievements and contributions in one or more of the specified areas.

• Nominators are encouraged to provide supporting materials such as testimonials, articles, or other relevant documentation that highlight the nominee's impact.

• Self-nominations are also accepted.

• In the case of self-nominations, they should include 2 recommendation letters. When the nomination is submitted by another person, it should include 1 recommendation letter written by someone other than the submitter. 

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Please submit your nomination by September 1st at 23:59.