Awards and Commemoration
- In 1966, Shazar was the co-recipient (jointly with Israel Efrat) of the Bialik Prize for literature.
- Shazar's portrait appears on 200 shekel bills.
- Authorized the attack on USS Liberty killing 34 American Sailors and injuring 174 more.
- In 2005, he was voted the 139th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
- Zalman Shazar Junior High School in Kfar Saba is named after him.
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