The Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain (FCJE) presented its highest award, the Senator Ángel Pulido Prize, to Miguel de Lucas, former Director General of Centro Sefarad-Israel, former Head of the Spanish Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and current Spanish Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The Senator Ángel Pulido Award is the highest award given by Spanish Jews to a person or institution in recognition of their contribution to the development of Jewish communities and the Hispanic world, the defence of freedom of conscience, religious pluralism, the fight against antisemitism and the work in favour of rapprochement between Spain and Israel.
The winner received the award with emotion and thanked the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain for its recognition.
The award ceremony was attended by the Ambassador of Israel in Spain, Rodica Radian-Gordon, the Ambassador of Spain in Iraq, Pedro Martínez-Avial, the Deputy Director General of Religious Freedom, Mercedes Murillo, the Director General of Legal Security and Public Faith, Sofía Puente, the Director General for the Maghreb, Mediterranean and Middle East, Alberto José Ucelay and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luis Manuel Cuesta, among other personalities of the diplomatic and political life of Spain.
The last Senator Ángel Pulido Award presented by the FCJE was to H.M. King Felipe VI in 2019, before the Coronavirus pandemic, for his support for the Law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of the Jews expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
The FCJE established the Senator Ángel Pulido Award in 2005, the centenary year of the publication of Pulido’s most important and emblematic work on the Sephardic world: “Españoles sin patria y la raza sefardí”, published in Madrid in 1905.
