Mount Zion Award
The Mount Zion Award is October 28 of the Mount Zion Foundation ( based at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies ( IJCF ) in Lucerne ) and the Benedictine Abbey Hagia Maria Sion awarded every second year in Jerusalem. The (1925 - 1996) in 1986 by Pastor Wilhelm Salberg founded Mount Zion Foundation awards since 1987 a peace prize to persons or institutions in Israel who have purchased in the cultural and interreligious understanding of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and the Middle East peace process merits.
The President of the Foundation, Prof. Dr. Verena Lenzen, Head IJCF, and the Abbot of Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion, Gregory Collins, hand over the Mount Zion Award traditional end of October, in memory of the Nostra Aetate declaration Council ( October 28, 1965 ), the ground-breaking for the rapprochement between the Catholic Church and non-Christian religions, especially Judaism, was. Past winners include well-known figures such as the Israeli writer David Grossman, Rabbi David Rosen of the " Interreligious Coordinating Council ", the Palestinian professor Sumaya Farhat- Naser, and especially lesser known " everyday heroes " who through their humanitarian commitment and courage have excelled.