Israel To Honor Three Cultural Activists

Director Atom Egoyan, playwright Tom Stoppard, and novelist Amos Oz have been named as the recipients of Israel’s $1m Dan David Prize, which recognizes humanitarian achievement in the cultural sphere. “The award to Egoyan is in recognition of his controversial 2002 near-epic Ararat, which concerned the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey and the attempt to deny it ever happened.”