Israel has recognized New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the first ever recipient of a $1 million award popularly dubbed the “Jewish Nobel Prize.”
The Genesis Prize Foundation said Monday that Bloomberg was the winner of the inaugural prize.
According to the foundation, the award recognizes “exceptional human beings who, through their outstanding achievement, come to represent a fundamental value of the Jewish people.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will present the prize early next year in Israel. The foundation says Bloomberg will then announce to which philanthropic cause he will donate the prize.
The foundation quoted Bloomberg as saying he was honored to be prize’s first recipient. He noted his parents “instilled in me Jewish values and ethics that I have carried with me throughout my life.”
(AP)
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Uch!
The prize should be withdrawn until he nullifies his anti-Bris Milah decree!!!
How about awarding the prize to Reb Chaim Kanievsky! He truely fulfills “exceptional human beings who, through their outstanding achievement, come to represent a fundamental value of the Jewish people.”
$1,000,000 to Bloomberg, who’s worth $31,000,000,000? That’s chump change.
How pathetic. Big money talks, as it always has. The award is far more deserved by the selfless founders of Hatzalah, Tomchei Shabbos, or other such organizations that have saved and sustained thousands of lives. Their focus was not on enriching themselves but enriching others.
Bloomberg is about as worthy of this award as rabin and arafat were for their nobel peace prize given for the oslo sham they created.