Five Israeli groups supporting Israelis held hostage in Gaza will receive the 2024 Genesis Prize, the $1 million award known as the “Jewish Nobel.” Presented annually since 2013, the award is given by the Genesis Prize Foundation, and historically has gone to Jewish celebrities or public figures. More recently, the foundation has given the prize to organizations that together are tackling a crisis in the Jewish community, including in 2022 when it honored groups supporting Jews in Ukraine.

This year, the foundation turned again to a collective group working to support Israelis taken hostage when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. The groups are: The Hostages and Missing Families progress on addressing the issue, The New York Times said.

In December, a nationally prominent rabbi, David Wolpe, resigned from a previous antisemitism advisory committee after widely criticized testimony about campus antisemitism before Congress by the former Harvard president, Claudine Gay. “Events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped,” he wrote on X at the time.

The university has named Jared Ellias, a law professor, to replace Dr. Sadun. “Over the past five months, grief, anger and fear have taken a toll on members of our community as divisions on our campus have persisted,” Alan M. Garber, the university’s interim president said in a statement. “We must do more to bridge the fissures.”