{"id":217,"date":"2025-04-11T08:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lm-studio.co.il\/tau\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:26:11","slug":"distinctions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annualreport.tau.ac.il\/2025\/distinctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"distinctions\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"distinctions__cont \" >\n                            <div class=\"distinctions__head lot-det\">\n                <h1 class=\"title\">DISTINCTIONS<\/h1>\n                                <div class=\"im\">\n                    <dotlottie-player src=\"https:\/\/annualreport.tau.ac.il\/2025\/wp-content\/themes\/tau\/img\/distinction_1.json\" background=\"transparent\" speed=\"1\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%\" direction=\"1\" playMode=\"normal\" loop autoplay><\/dotlottie-player>\n                <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"distinctions__text lot-det\">\n                                <div class=\"txt\">\n                   <p><strong>Prof. Lihi Adler-Abramovich<\/strong>, Medical &amp; Health Sciences, Senior Member of US National Academy of Inventors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Yakir Aharonov<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Noga Alon<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, 2024 Wolf Prize in Mathematics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Yossi Azar<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, STOC 2024 30-Year Test of Time Award; 2024 European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Fellow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Boaz Barak<\/strong>, Social Sciences, 2024 Outstanding Researcher Award from the Israel Coalition for Rare Diseases<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Adi Barzel<\/strong>, Life Sciences, Juludan Prize<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal<\/strong>, Social Sciences, Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Uri Ben-David<\/strong>, Medical &amp; Health Sciences, Member of the Israel Young Academy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Jonathan Berant<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, ICLR 2024 Outstanding Paper Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Yoav Benjamini<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, 2024 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Jori Breslawski<\/strong>, Social Sciences, Distinguished Article Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Eyal Chowers<\/strong>, Social Sciences, 2024 Anthony D. Smith Article Prize<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Jisca Cohen-Mansfield<\/strong>, Medical &amp; Health Sciences, 2024 Robert W. Kleemeier Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Kfir Eliaz<\/strong>, Social Sciences, Economic Theory Fellow, Society for Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET); Fellow of the Econometric Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Michal Feldman<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, 2023 SIGecom Mid-Career Award; Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Arseny Finkelstein<\/strong>, Medical &amp; Health Sciences, Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Mor Geva<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, 2024 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Pavel Ginzburg<\/strong>, Engineering, 2025 Kadar Family Award for Outstanding<br \/>\nResearch<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Motti Golani<\/strong>, Humanities, President of the State and Prime Minister\u2019s Prize<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Alexander Golberg<\/strong>, Engineering, Senior Member, US National Academy of Inventors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Boaz Hameiri<\/strong>, Social Sciences, SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Ruth Heller<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, 2024 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Tamar Herzig<\/strong>, Humanities, Cherasco International Prize in History<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Barak Hirshberg<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, 2023 Journal of Chemical Physics Best Paper by an Emerging Investigator Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Alon Klement<\/strong>, Law, Zeltner Prize<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Ayala Lampel<\/strong>, Life Sciences, Nanomaterials Young Investigator Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Tal Laviv<\/strong>, Medical &amp; Health Sciences, Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Ariel Lellouch<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, J. Clarence Karcher Award, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Yossi Leshem<\/strong>, Life Sciences, President of the State and Prime Minister\u2019s Prize<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Eliav Lieblich<\/strong>, Law, 2025 Max Planck\u2014Cambridge Prize for International Law<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Oded Lipschits<\/strong>, Humanities, Honorary Doctorate, University of Zurich<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Boris Malomed<\/strong>, Engineering, Nonlinear Science and Complexity 2025 Lagrange Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Ben Maoz<\/strong>, Engineering, Juludan Prize<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Liad Mudrik<\/strong>, Social Sciences, 2025 Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Gal Oestreicher-Singer<\/strong>, Management, 2025 Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Dan Peer<\/strong>, Life Sciences, Elected Fellow, US National Academy of Inventors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Brian Rosen<\/strong>, Engineering, Senior Member, US National Academy of Inventors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro<\/strong>, Medical &amp; Health Sciences, 2024 Tenne Family Prize<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Doron Shabat<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, 2025 Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Natan Tzvi Shaked<\/strong>, Engineering, Senior Member, US National Academy of Inventors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Zohar Shavit<\/strong>, Humanities, Israel Prize in Culture and Arts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Yossi Shiloh<\/strong>, Medical &amp; Health Sciences, Technion Faculty of Biology Distinguished Alumni Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Noam Shoked<\/strong>, Arts, 2024 On the Brinck Book Award; 2024 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Ran I. Snitkovksy<\/strong>, Management, 2024 Rothblum Award, Operations Research Society of Israel (ORSIS)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Raya Sorkin<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Yael Sternhell<\/strong>, Humanities, 2024 Tom Watson Brown Book Award, Society of Civil War Historians<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Haya Stier<\/strong>, Social Sciences, Lifetime Achievement Award, European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Yaron Tsur<\/strong>, Humanities, Israel Prize in Jewish History<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Daniel Yekutieli<\/strong>, Exact Sciences, 2024 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Ines Zucker<\/strong>, Engineering, 2024 Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) Emerging Investigator Award<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"im\">\n                    <dotlottie-player src=\"https:\/\/annualreport.tau.ac.il\/2025\/wp-content\/themes\/tau\/img\/distinction_2.json\" background=\"transparent\" speed=\"1\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%\" direction=\"1\" playMode=\"normal\" loop autoplay><\/dotlottie-player>\n                <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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