The winner was Catalina Miranda, a student at New Zealand School. Second place was a tie between Diego Magallanes of the Escuela Integral Hebreo Uruguaya and Mary Carmen Flores Lopez of Jesús María School.
The panel consisted of Roberto Cyjon, former president of the Central Israeli Committee of Uruguay; Dr. Ana Ribeiro, historian and professor at the School of Humanities at the Catholic University of Uruguay; and Dr. Ramiro Rodríguez Villamil, co-founder of the weekly newspaper *Búsqueda* and former director of Radio Sarandí. Dr. Gabriel Goldman served as the event’s moderator.
The event was attended by Israeli Ambassador Nina Ben Ami and German Ambassador Ingo von Voß, who presented the award to the winner. It was organized by the Bergstein family and the university’s Department of Jewish Studies.
Caption: Judges: Roberto Cyjon and Ana Ribeiro; the winner: Catalina Miranda; Gabriel Goldman; and Erica Yac, coordinator of the university’s Department of Jewish Studies.
Image credit: Andrés Aksler