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Haaretz's Gideon Levy wins prize for cultural dialogue
By Asaf Carmel
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Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy has won this year's Euro-Med Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue.

Levy was awarded the prize for an article published on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, entitled "The children of 5767" (5767 is the Jewish calendar year that ended on September 12, 2007). The article told the stories of all the Palestinian children killed by Israel Defense Forces fire over the previous year.

According to the prize committee, the piece not only dealt with a sensitive issue "in a very courageous manner," but also focused attention on an issue the Israeli media rarely covers.
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The prize, now in its second year, is awarded jointly by the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures and the International Federation of Journalists.

Levy shared this year's prize with three other journalists from Slovenia, Turkey and Belgium. They were chosen out of 76 contenders from 37 countries.

Haaretz journalist Yoav Stern was one of the winners of last year's prize.

"I think this is a prize for Haaretz," said Levy yesterday. "It has once again been recognized as the only platform in Israel that enables both complete, fair journalistic coverage that is not enlisted in a cause and a pluralistic expression of opinions and views. Without Haaretz, there would be no Gideon Levy, nor would there be many of the other voices that it makes heard. I'm not certain there are many papers in the world that would allow me to do my work as Haaretz has for the 25 years I have been working here."
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  1.   Fully deserved prize to a courageous 00:04  |  Steve the Pals. 17/01/08
  2.   No prize for an Arab Journalist blasting his own people 00:22  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/01/08
  3.   No prize for an Arab Journalist blasting his own people 00:55  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/01/08
  4.   Congratulations Gideon,richly deserved! 01:05  |  lakshmi 17/01/08
  5.   # 1 01:43  |  A.M. 17/01/08
  6.   #2 If calling names is all that you are capable of is proof 02:31  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/01/08
  7.   congratulations 02:32  |  kaled 17/01/08
  8.   Not "enlisted in a cause"? Levy`s cause is the weakening of Israe 02:50  |  McQueen 17/01/08
  9.   Gideon Levy, What you did was so important... 02:52  |  dutch 17/01/08
  10.   just an attempt to poke in israel`s eye means nothing worth noth 03:07  |  ralph 17/01/08
  11.   #5 Mc Queen, you are such a foolish man 03:26  |  Dutch 17/01/08
  12.   Congratulations, Levy - Jew Haters` Favorite 04:20  |  Tod Zuckerman 17/01/08
  13.   Well Deserved Mr. Levy 04:54  |  Abla Aranki 17/01/08
  14.   Dutch, honesty is when one tells the whole story but in this case 04:55  |  chris w 17/01/08
  15.   Thank you Gideon 06:08  |  Pete 17/01/08
  16.   Haaretz Post-Zionist Censor - Please Post My Congratulations 06:10  |  Tod Zuckerman 17/01/08
  17.   Gideon Levy 07:37  |  dani.a 17/01/08
  18.   Congrats 07:54  |  Faisal 17/01/08
  19.   "Cultural" prize 08:50  |  Gabe 17/01/08
  20.   self hating jew 08:57  |  nunya 17/01/08
  21.   IS HE ALSO GOING TO GET A PAL PASS? 10:06  |  Robert 17/01/08
  22.   Well done to this brilliant courageous writer 10:31  |  SJ 17/01/08
  23.   Those who the perpetrated the 1st Jewish Holocaust... 11:00  |  Joel Stein 17/01/08
  24.   Kudos to Gideon Levy 11:15  |  Esther 17/01/08
  25.   Enemy Propagandist Honored by Eurabia 12:29  |  Efox 17/01/08
  26.   for europe gideon levy is a useful fool 12:29  |  harzion 17/01/08
  27.   gideon levy lest you be unduly flattered 12:35  |  harzion 17/01/08
  28.   "and the Loser is..." 12:38  |  henry 17/01/08
  29.   Hat off to G.Levy. The simple paradox of national contribution. 12:49  |  zmogus 17/01/08
  30.   Gideon Levi and cultural dialogue? 13:06  |  Sarag 17/01/08
  31.   IN YESTERDAY`S TALKBACK ON THIS 13:51  |  Robert 17/01/08
  32.   A Well Deserved Prize 14:11  |  Shimon Z. Klein 17/01/08
  33.   Sit down if you are waiting for his article on Israeli children 14:49  |  David 17/01/08
  34.   Cultural Dialogue 15:01  |  I.J.Aron 17/01/08
  35.   Gideon Levy is like a broken record 15:21  |  ARA 17/01/08
  36.   Hats off to Ha`aretz 15:39  |  sh 17/01/08
  37.   what type of prize 15:46  |  richard 17/01/08
  38.   Gideon Levy gets his 30 shekels of silver 16:44  |  Boris 17/01/08
  39.   gideon is the best, jews are with u 17:57  |  sev 17/01/08
  40.   #14 There is no balance between an occupier and the occupied 18:34  |  Dutch 17/01/08
  41.   So Join Your Adoring Public in Europe Like Avrum Burg 18:39  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 17/01/08
  42.   congrats, but... 20:03  |  christoph 17/01/08
  43.   What if it were positive about Israel? 23:48  |  Rafael 17/01/08
  44.   Prizes for nothing 23:50  |  Nissem Mizrahi 17/01/08
  45.   #42 chritoph 23:51  |  Sarah 17/01/08
  46.   Gideon, one of the handful of Israelis of whom one can be proud 01:13  |  Chanalau, Tova 18/01/08
  47.   it`s a long time you won this prize in my heart 01:17  |  Vincent 18/01/08
  48.   It proves that Golda was right 01:38  |  anon 18/01/08
  49.   Haaretz needs some way of guaging customer satisfaction 06:38  |  Rowan Berkeley 18/01/08
  50.   Gideon Levy 12:31  |  Louisa Romanous 08/02/09
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