Seventy Years without Raoul Wallenberg
Omer Aloni was awarded with the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies. The Raoul Wallenberg Prize was also awarded to Dr. Mikael Shainkman at the Moshe Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry.
This year marks the 28th anniversary of the establishment of the prize by the Swedish Friends of TAU, and exactly 70 years for Raoul Wallenberg's disappearance behind the Iron Curtain.
The prize is annually awarded to doctoral students researching the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism or discrimination etc., and Law students specializing in International Law and Human Rights, and International Diplomatic and Legislative Activity Against Racial Discrimination.
Raoul legacy of international fierce diplomatic, legislative and humanitarian was emphasized by the honorable speakers: Prof. Irwin Cotler -Former Canadian Minister of Justice, Mr. Jens Orback- Former Swedish Minister of Democracy and the current Secretary General of the Olof Palme International Center, Prof. Yoram Dinstein- Former President of Tel-Aviv University, Ms. Cecilia Åhlberg- Wallenberg Family Member, and Prof. Raanan Rein- Tel-Aviv University Vise-President. Among the participants and chairpersons were H.E. Mr. Carl Magnus Nesser – Ambassador of Sweden, Prof. Dina Porat – Head of the Kantor Center, Prof. Joseph Klafter-President of Tel-Aviv University, and Mr. Danny Rainer, of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
Omer Aloni is a Ph.D. candidate of the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at TAU Law. Omer was chosen by the scientific committee and awarded for his pioneering work in legal history studies. His LL.M. dissertation, "For there is Peace in the Village: Reflections of Orientalist Perspectives in Early Israel Law" (supervised by Prof. Ron Harris, Dean of the Buchman Faculty of Law), demonstrates certain presentations of the Others in legal texts and decisions issued by the Supreme Court in the 1950s and 1960s young State of Israel. Omer's current project in his Ph.D. dissertation (supervised by Dr. David Schorr) is joining the historiographic renaissance in the study of the League of Nations and its contribution to the evolution of international law.
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