Professor Yehuda Liebes is awarded the EMET Prize for his outstanding contribution to the study of Jewish mysticism over the centuries as well as the study of Sabbateanism, for his original studies on Zohar literature which touch upon different disciplines and for his scientific work on a wide variety of themes within Jewish thought in different periods.

Professor Yaakov Sussmann is awarded the EMET Prize for his inspirational and multifaceted contribution to the study of Talmudic literature, and for being a lodestone for scholars of the Talmud and the rabbinical literature in Israel and abroad.