Annual Report 2009 » Prizes and Honors

Prof. Uri Alon The Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Yad Hanadiv Foundation

Dr. Eli Arama Research Career Development Award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund

Prof. Ruth Arnon Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society

Prof. Ed Bayer Elected to the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center

Dr. Michael Bendikov The France-Israel Foundation Award for Academic Excellence

Prof. David Cahen The Kolthoff Prize from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology for research on alternative
energy sources

Prof. Irun Cohen Teva Founders Prize

Prof. Harry Dym Elected President of the Israel Mathematical Union

Michael Epstein Elected Chairman of the Israel Sustainable Energy Society

Prof. Asher Friesem The Optical Engineering and Science in Israel (OASIS) Award

Prof. Oded Goldreich Elected a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research

Dr. Ilan Koren The Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research

Dr. Robert Krauthgamer Elected Treasurer of the Israel Mathematical Union

Prof. Gershon Kurizki The Alexander von Humboldt Prize

Prof. Doron Lancet The Landau Prize for Science and Research

Prof. Zvi Lipkin The EMET Prize in Physics awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation

Prof. Zeev Luz The 2008 Israel Chemical Society Medal

Prof. Yitzhak Maron The John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society

Prof. Emanuel Mazor The Ot Hamagshim Award from the President of Israel; the Medal for Contributions to Israeli
Society in the Area of the Earth Sciences from the Israel Geological Society

Prof. Yehiam Prior Elected a fellow of the Optical Society of America

Prof. Itamar Procaccia The Israel Prize in physics; elected a member of the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Prof. Orly Reiner An Excellence Award in Memory of Profs. Daphna and Dov Izraeli from the Israel Cancer Association

Prof. Omer Reingold The Professor Amnon Pazy Memorial Award from the United States-Israel Binational Science
Foundation; the Godel Prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science from the Association for Computing Machinery and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science

Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar Elected Secretary of the Israel Mathematical Union

Prof. Israel Rubinstein Honored by a special issue of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

Prof. Samuel Safran A Beller Lectureship from the American Physical Society

Prof. Michal Schwartz An honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; the Rina and Yosef
Shaked Prize for Brain Research

Prof. Yechiel Shai Elected executive editor of the international journal Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) –
Biomembranes

Dr. Alla Shainskaya Elected President of the Israeli Society for Mass Spectrometry

Dr. Michal Sharon Research Career Development Award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund

Prof. Nathan Sharon The inaugural Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology

Prof. David Tannor The Zahava and Zvi Friedenberg Prize of the Israel Science Foundation

Prof. Reshef Tenne The Israel Chemical Society Prize for Excellence

Prof. Edriss S. Titi Elected a member of the Commission on Mathematical Physics of the International Union of
Pure and Applied Physics

Prof. Meir Wilchek Elected for an additional term as a member of the board of governors of Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev and also of Bar-Ilan University

Prof. Ada Yonath The 2008 Albert Einstein World Award of Science from the World Cultural Council

Prof. Eli Zeldov Elected a fellow of the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo