- 2023 I Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2023 I Member of the Academia Europea
- 2019 I Chevalier de l’ordre des Palmes Académiques (France).
- 2019-2020 I Chair of Excellence (6 months), Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- 2018 I B. Lazan Award, Society of Experimental Mechanics for “Seminal contributions to the scientific and technological understanding of behavior of materials under extreme loading conditions”
- 2017 I Adjunct Professor and Doctoral Advisor, Beijing Institute of Technology.
- 2017 I Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award (with Assoc. Prof. N. Drimer)
- 2017 I AIANI Fellow and Guest Professor (2 weeks), University of Innsbruck
- 2015 I Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2015 I Gili Agostinelli Prize (The International Gili Agostinelli Prize for pure or applied mechanics, mathematics applied to the physical, natural and engineering sciences as well as biological and medical sciences), Torino Academy of Sciences
- 2013 I Honorary Professor, Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- 2013 I Cooper Prize for academic excellence
- 2012 I Fellow, Society of Experimental Mechanics
- 2011-2012 I Chair of Excellence (6 months), Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- 2009 I Lt. Gen. A. Peled Research Fund for armor related subjects, Technion
- 2009 I The Zandman Institute Chair in Experimental Mechanics, Technion
- 2006-2007 I Clark B. Millikan Chair in Aeronautics, Caltech, USA
- 2005 I Lt. Gen. A. Peled Research Fund for armor related subjects, Technion
- 2002 I A. Goldberg Research Prize, Technion
- 1988 I Elected to represent Israeli research students at SAMPE European Chapter Conference, Milano, Italy
- 1982 I Fellowship in the memory of Professor A.S. Tetelman, HUJ