Awards and Prizes
Grader Prize, Israel Geological Society, 1976
Fellow, Geological Society of America, 1981
Citation of excellence, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1984
Freund Prize, Israel Geological Society, 1985
Invited Lecture, Royal Astronomical Society, London, 1985
Max Sonnenberg Chair of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town, 1989
Member, Academia Europaea, 1996
Nebenzahl and Grossberg Chair in Geodynamics, Tel Aviv University, 1998
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1999
Corresponding member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 2000
Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2000
Israel Prize, 2003
Honorary member, World Jewish Academy of Sciences, 2003
L.Meitner-A.v. Humboldt Research Award, 2004
Foreign member, Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
Lifetime Achievement Award, Israeli Association for Aquatic Sciences, 2012
Honorary member, Israel Geological Society, 2014