Full decorated handwritten kosher parchment scroll of Song of Songs by Avraham Borshevsky cased in a magnificent glass-and-silver shofar. The 2021 Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award to the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks OBM. Rabbi Sacks served as a Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013.
The President of Israel presented the Award to Lady Elaine Sacks. From left, Lady Elaine Sacks, former PM of the UK Theresa May, Genesis Prize Foundation Co-founder and Chairman Stan Polovets, President of Israel Isaac HaLevi Herzog.
Full decorated handwritten kosher parchment scroll of Song of Songs by Avraham Borshevsky
The glass-and-silver case was created in Jerusalem by Boris Shpeizman. Photo by Thomas Alexander, London
22 November 2021. A ceremony and dinner took place in the Banqueting House, Whitehall, London. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.