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Israel “Psalms” Champion for Youth, 1965
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Distinction Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1967
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Distinction Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1970
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Prize, Goethe Institute, Munich, Germany, 1975
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Harvard Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1980-1982
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Grant, NATO Advanced Study Institute, 1982
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Fellowship, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, 1983
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NRC Senior Associate, NASA/Goddard, Greenbelt, US, 1995-1997
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American Men & Women of Sciences (AMWS Book), 1998
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Goddard Fellow, NASA Goddard Flight Center, 2003-2008
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Honorary Member, World Jewish Academy of Sciences, 2004-
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Member as the Senate Delegate, Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, 2007-2009
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Best of What's New Popular Science Award of Flood Warning, 2009
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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Medal, WIPO Medal, "for the best invention to predict floods using cellular networks" (with N. David and H. Messer-Yaron), 2009
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Certificate of Championship of the Lower Jordan River, granted in Limassol, Cyprus, by the Jordanian, Palestinian & Israeli Directors of FoEME-Friends of the Earth Middle East, 2011
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The Mikhael M. Nebenzahl & Amalia Grossberg Chair Professor in Geodynamics, 2011-2019
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Head of the Porter School for Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2008-2013
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Member of the International Advisory Board of DESERVE (Dead Sea Research Venue of the German Helmholtz Society), 2012-2017
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Most Influential Paper Award by the American Journal of Climate Change (AJCC) to: Pinhas Alpert, Olga Shvainshtein and Pavel Kishcha for the paper: "AOD trends over megacities based on space monitoring using MODIS and MISR", AJCC, 1, 117-131, 2012, 2016
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Recipient of the EGU Bjerknes Medal Award - Ceremony & Medal Lecture on the EGU General Assembly, April 2018
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Our study is one of 10 leading curious environmental research in Israel of year 2017 (student doctorant Lee Sever), 2018
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Award of JSIDRE: Our 2014 Springer Book on "Climate Analysis: Regional Atmospheric Processes, in Climate Change Impacts on Basin Agro-Ecosystems", Editors: Selim Kapur and Tsugihiro Watanabe, won the 2020 Award of JSIDRE (Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering), 2020
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Recipient of Landau Award on Climate life-time Research, 2023