News From The Naomi Foundation

YiddishPOP Microgrants: Applications Open! We’re thrilled to announce that YiddishPOP Microgrants are now open for applications through July 21, 2025! These small, high-impact grants support creative projects that bring YiddishPOP’s animated lessons and language-learning tools into classrooms, community programs, and digital spaces. As The Forward recently wrote in its feature, “YiddishPOP offers microgrants to help […]

In a milestone year, the Naomi Prawer Kadar Foundation is proud to mark its tenth consecutive year of supporting the Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research at Tel Aviv University — an annual program that recognizes four distinguished scholars whose work stands at the intersection of research excellence and teaching impact. The 2025 laureates include: Prof. Liad […]

The Kadar-Sheba Prize for Excellence in Research was created by the Naomi Prawer Kadar Foundation to recognize and support Israel’s most outstanding physician-researchers—those whose work bridges clinical practice and biomedical discovery.  The Prize went from being a prestigious institutional award to a top level national prize. The selection committee fielded applications from the most accomplished […]

At the 2024 ceremony, Prof. Neta Erez, Vice Dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, was honored for her groundbreaking research on the early stages of cancer metastasis. Her lab is developing immunotherapies that help protective T-cells prevent breast cancer from spreading to the bones by strengthening their functionality and […]

Dr. Uri Ben-David’s groundbreaking research on cancer genomics and cellular diversity exemplifies the Kadar family’s vision of science in service of humanity. His work seeks to understand how genetic variation within tumors can be used to develop more effective and targeted treatments—those that destroy cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. The 2023 cohort of Kadar […]

The Kadar-Sheba Prize for Excellence in Research recognizes the most outstanding physician-researcher at Sheba Medical Center, honoring those who combine excellence in patient care with leadership in medical research. The annual $100,000 award—including a $75,000 research grant and a $25,000 personal honorarium—reflects the Foundation’s belief in the unique contribution of clinician-scientists, whose work bridges laboratory […]

The 2022 Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University honored four exceptional scholars whose innovative work advances understanding across diverse disciplines. The recipients — Prof. Oded Na’aman (Philosophy), Prof. Anat Herbst-Debby (Art History), Prof. Hadas Sorek (Sociology and Anthropology), and Prof. Nadav Berman Shifman […]

In 2021, the Naomi Prawer Kadar Foundation and Sheba Medical Center inaugurated the Kadar-Sheba Prize for Excellence in Research, a $100,000 award recognizing the physician-researcher whose work best bridges cutting-edge science with transformative clinical care. The inaugural recipient, Prof. Raz Somech, Director of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies and senior physician in […]

The 2021 Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University recognized four outstanding scholars whose work exemplifies originality, depth, and impact in their respective fields. The recipients — Prof. Noam Mizrahi (Biblical Studies), Dr. Ruthie Abeliovich (Theatre and Performance Studies), Dr. Yuval Neria (Psychology), and […]

Dr. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro (pictured above), was named a 2020 Kadar Family Award Winner for her nanoparticle vaccine research studying cancers and COVID-19. For the past six years the Naomi Foundation has presented the Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research to Tel Aviv University to scientists and scholars who have reached the highest levels of excellence […]