Dr. Arnulf M. Pins (“Arnie”) bequeathed an extraordinary legacy. He was the rare combination of the man of vision and implementation. With Arnie, ideals were meant to be realized. His fuel was his abiding love for the Jewish people and Israel. His tools were the disciplines of the social work profession and education. As educator and social worker, he left his lasting imprint not only on the many services and programs he initiated and developed, but on the hearts and minds of those who were privileged to work with him.

He first came to Israel in 1971 as visiting professor at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University, where he helped establish the Joseph Schwartz Graduate Program for Training of Community Center Directors and Senior Personnel. During this year, he acted as advisor to Chayim Zipori on the development of community centers. In 1974, Arnie returned as an immigrant to assume the position of Associate Director of JDC-Israel and Director of the ADJC Regional Office for the Middle East, posts which he filled with distinction until his death on February 8, 1978.

During those four years, Arnie innovated and created, in addition to raising the standards for his profession and for the community center staff. He worked tirelessly for closer cooperation and understanding between Diaspora Jewish communal workers and Israeli professionals. His influence will long be felt by those who were his colleagues at the JDC, in schools of social work, and in various government ministries.

The Ben Zvi Prize for Excellence and Innovation in the Study of Social Work and Social Welfare is intended to commemorate the late Bracha Ben Zvi, and her contribution to the advancement of social policy and the social work profession in Israel, as well as her commitment to professional innovation, excellence in research, initiation and leadership of the Nursing Law. Ph.D. in the Paul Brawald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, who submitted a research proposal that is characterized by scientific excellence and significant innovation.

A research scholarship awarded annually to male and female students, at the Paul Brawald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The scholarship is awarded in memory of the late social worker Michal Sela, an outstanding graduate with a master's degree in social work. Sela was a beloved woman who dedicated her life to helping vulnerable populations, including the mentally handicapped and those with limited sexual assault. Sela was brutally murdered in her home on October 3, 2019. The accused in the murder is the father of their baby daughter.

The scholarship named after the late Nira Shenhar is given from a fund set up in her memory by her family and the Jewish Agency. Nira Shenhar was a senior social worker in the Welfare Services Division of the Immigration and Absorption Department of the Jewish Agency. Immigrant absorption and welfare were at the center of her interest and she devoted herself to improving the level of services for immigrants and training workers for this purpose.

The award for the social work named after the late Pnina and Yitzhak Levy is given to students at the Paul Brawald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, with a physical disability who excelled in studies and / or demonstrated original thinking

And excellence in activities for the individual.
The award came to remember the late Pnina and Yitzhak Levy, Pnina was a student counselor at the school and worked for many years in student counseling services, and Yitzhak is a teaching staff member at the school, both people who love people and are attentive to his hardships and needs. The award comes to encourage students to develop sensitivity and original thinking in caring for people while dealing with their limitations.

The Pnina and Marcel Pinchevsky Scholarship is awarded to outstanding students in the doctoral program at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare. The scholarship was donated by Pnina and Marcel Pinchevsky. 1972-1975. She graduated with a master's degree in social work from McGill University, Canada in 1978. Pnina has dedicated her life to caring for people with mental disabilities and domestic violence. In recent years she has been teaching and mentoring students.

The Paul Brawald School of Social Work and Social Welfare is pleased to announce the awarding of the Prof. Avraham and Hava Doron Award to outstanding researchers in the field of social policy. The award is intended for doctoral students, post-doctoral students, members Faculty members up to the rank of senior lecturer without tenure (full academic track) or a lecturer in the accompanying track with a standard, who are engaged in research in the broad field of social policy and social security in Israel. The late Prof. Avraham Doron is one of the founders of social policy research. For his many studies in the field of social policy and social work, he won the Israel Prize for the Study of Social Work in 2004. Even today, his publications serve as basic materials in courses dealing with the welfare state. The late Prof. Doron also played a key role in the process of shaping social policy in Israel for decades. Among other things, he was one of the drafters of the Income Security Law. As a faculty member, the late Prof. Doron held many positions at the school and even served as head of the school. The late Prof. Doron has nurtured generations of social workers and welfare state researchers. Some of his students now serve as faculty members in schools and other social work schools.

The Rachel Reichman (Freidenberg) Prize, founded by her family, is intended for students who have excelled in the field of individual therapy or in scientific writing or in providing assistance that has contributed to the well-being of human beings. The award is given in memory of the late Rachel Reichman (Freidenberg), a graduate of our school and a student counselor, and is intended to commemorate her interest in the therapeutic field, and the encouragement she gave students to continue to work and innovate and work with people in need.

The annual Ruth Lachman Davis Social Work Award is given to students at the Paul Brawald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, who have achieved impressive results in professional work, in the field of volunteering or in the academic field. The prize comes to remember Ruth Lachman The late Davis, an instructor at the school who was one of the first social workers and mental health officers in the country. In awarding the prize, priority is given to those whose contribution is to children, teenagers and families, which were the areas of work of the late Ruth Lachman-Davis.

The annual Ruth Lachman Davis Social Work Award is given to students at the Paul Brawald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, who have achieved impressive results in professional work, in the field of volunteering or in the academic field. The prize comes to remember Ruth Lachman The late Davis, an instructor at the school who was one of the first social workers and mental health officers in the country. In awarding the prize, priority is given to those whose contribution is to children, teenagers and families, which were the areas of work of the late Ruth Lachman-Davis.

The scholarship is awarded by Dayan Bar, in memory of his wife, the late Tali Bar, for research work in the field of trauma, health or rehabilitation. The purpose of the foundation is to assist in innovative research work and to help improve

The interventions in these areas that were important to Tali. Tali Bar was our student in the years 2009-2010 (2009-2010).

Tali was the ideal model of a student in the graduate program, demonstrating high intellectual abilities alongside many emotional abilities and extensive therapeutic experience.

She dedicated her professional life to her work as a social worker in the Social Security Department.

The scholarship is awarded from a fund set up by the Elkin family in memory of their beloved Yehuda Elkin, the father of the family who immigrated from Chile, Ohav Adam and his daughter Yaffa Tubali-Elkin, a senior Social Security employee, which saw its mission in improving service to the needy and a lot of commission on training workers across the country to achieve this goal.
The scholarship is awarded annually to a graduate student whose final thesis deals with the issue of welfare from an approach of social work.

The awarding ceremony is to commemorate the late Ziva Strauss, a graduate of the school, who worked in the Swedish village in individual care with people with mental retardation and at the Kfar Shaul Psychiatric Hospital in a variety of positions, including the deputy director of social services.

In her work, Ziva combined individual work, theoretical work and the development of experimental projects in the field of social work. The purpose of the award is to encourage patients' well-being and rehabilitation, while showing initiative, innovation and integration in teamwork. The award is given for direct work with applicants or for organizational or theoretical donation.

Richard M. Titmus (1907-1973)

The Memorial Lecture in Memory of Prof. Richard M. Titmus began as an initiative of the winner of the Israel Prize for Social Work, Prof. Avraham Doron, and of the National Insurance Institute, which aims to commemorate the work of one of the most important voices in the field of social policy design in the past century and the forefathers of the modern welfare state. Titmus. Titmus was also a close friend of the State of Israel and the National Insurance Institute and even visited Israel on several occasions.

The memorial lecture is known as a stage for meaningful learning and therefore the research group in the social policy of the School of Social Work and Social Welfare named after Brawald at the Hebrew University each year invites one of the best academic minds in the world to give a lecture. In recent years, Prof. Timothy Smithing (Senior Lecturer and Founder of the Luxembourg Income Studies Research Center), Prof. Joachim Palma (Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute for Futures Studies), and Prof. Peter Tyler-Gobi ( OBE, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Kent) and Prof. Irving Garfinkel (Senior Lecturer at Columbia University and Director of the Retired Poverty Research Institute).