Awards and Honours
- In 1978, Shabtai was awarded the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category), which was the inaugural year of the prize.
- In 1978, he was awarded the Kinor David Prize for Plays.
- In 1982, he was posthumously awarded the Agnon Prize for literature.
- In 1999, the Tel Aviv Municipality named a street after him.
In 2005, he was voted the 173rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
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