i thought so.

And ... #1: please give it a rest. WHO CARES? Israel does not need to compare itself to Arab countries in order to be successful. In fact, it should not do so. We should judge Israel on its own merits, not on those of its neighbors.

Only about 99.9% of authors promoted in British, Australian etc. bookstores are women - this has got to improve. /sarcasm off.

take all the prizes put them in a very big tray put them on head and dance on the street of jerusalem .... it would not solve anything for israil or jerusalem or for me but still i have hope without translation to english without prizes i have hope

These prizes look like an effort of the British to clean their antisemitism. And/or to make us believe that they are "tolerant" and respectful of Jews when in reality they are not. Don't accept the prizes!