Dan David Prize, the prize awarded by the foundation as well as Tel Aviv University, was rejected by Catherine Halla British academic which is the Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History and chair of the digital scholarship projectof University College London in 2016.
The Dan David Foundation was founded in 2000 with a $100 million endowment by Romanian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist Dan David. The foundation and Tel Aviv University award the prizes. In 2016, Catherine Hall of University College London rejected the Dan David Prize. Catherine Hall FBA (born 1946 in Kettering) is a British academic. She is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London and chair of its digital scholarship project, the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership. 
