Name Your Hero 2009

First Prize


Yuval Catz
ORT Hashomron & Binyamina
"Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater"

Dan Eshed
Comprehensive High School 'Zayin' Hakiria, Ashdod
"Voice of the Sceptic - Michael Shermer, Historian"

Lihi Ezra
ORT Acre-Draski
"Sound As a Source of Electricity - Prof. Tahir Cagin"

Second Prize

Natali Aharoni
ORT Moshe Sharet, Nazareth Ilit
"Carl Gershman - Promoting Awareness of Democracy"

Noa Dror
Regional High School Megido
"The Straw that Broke the Bacterium's Back -
Dr. Moshe Frommer, the Inventor of ‘LifeStraw'"

Meital Gelbort
Eldad High School, Netanya
"'Aharai' - NGO for Youth Leading Change"

Sean Malikin
Hakfar Hayarok Experimental Village for Environment Leadership
"'The Vertical Farm' - Prof. Dickson Despommier"

Moshe Nizayov
Municipal High School 'Zayin', Tel Aviv-Jaffa
"Baza Nababa - A Blind Distance Runner "

Eden Reidi
Danziger High School, Kiryat Shmona
"Hayao Miyazaki - Japanese Animator"

Third Prize

Shiran Ashkenazi
Municipal High School 'Zayin', Tel Aviv-Jaffa
"Olympe de Gouges - Ahoti Movement for Women in Israel"

Masat Cohen
Ulpanat Bnei Akiva, Netivot
"Bema'aglei Tzedek - NGO for Social Justice"

Yuval Finkelstein
Eldad High School, Netanya
"Muhammad Ionos - Founder of the Grameen Bank Providing Micro Credit"

Liri Yoel Finkovich  &
Netta Rothstein
Hakfar Hayarok Experimental Village for Environment Leadership
"Prof. Reuven Foirstein - Founder of the International Center
for the Advancement of Learning"

Jonathan Halatnik
Leo Baeck Middle School, Haifa
"Leo Baeck Educational Center -
Based on the Theories and Values of Dr. Leo Baeck"

Chen Hirsch
Amal High School 1, Naharia
"Museum Sugihara and the Humanity Hill (Jindou No Oka)"

Inbar Levy
Lady Davis High School, Tel Aviv
"'Simchat Halev' - Medical Clowns of Israel"

Inbal Mualem
Galili High School, Kfar Saba
"'Elwyn' Israel - Integrating the Disabiled into Society"

Sandra Nasrallah
Municipal High School 'Zayin', Tel Aviv-Jaffa
"Jaime Escalante, Teacher"

Naor Porat
High School for Nature, Environment and Society, Tel Aviv - Jaffa
"Prof. Yaacov Bknstein, Physicist"

Niv Vrubel
Bnei Brak Yeshiva High School
"Project Gutenberg - A Free, Computerized Library for All on the Web"

Amit Wiesel
"Use of Stem Cells for Saving Life - Medicine of the Future"
Ahad Ha'am High School, Petach Tikva

Citation

Yarden Ben Chorin
ORT Hashomron & Binyamina
"Dr. Daniel Kaftori & Prof. Avi Kribos - Development of
a System for Utilizing Solar Power "

Amnon Cohen Kafri
Ort Hashomron & Binyamina
"Peretz Rosenberg - Agricultural Inventor and Social Activist"

Ofer Yaakov-Zada
ORT Technicom - Givataim
"Ayanot Youth Village Village for Darfur Refugees"