Haim Harari - Award and Honors

Award and Honors

Harari's honors include, among others:

• membership in the Israel Academy of Sciences (1978);
• membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010);
• the Rothschild Prize in Physics (1976);
• the Israel Prize, in the exact sciences (1989);
• the EMET Prize in Education (2004);
• several honorary doctorates;
• the "Commander Cross of the Order of Merit" presented by the President of Germany;
• the "Cross of Honor, Science and Art, First Class" presented by Austria;
• the Golden cross of honor for service to the land of Lower Austria (2011); and
• the rarely-awarded Harnack medal from the Max Planck Institute (2001), to acknowledge his contribution to the tradition of co-operation between the Max Planck Society and the Weizmann Institute.

In 2004 Harari gave a speech entitled "A View from the Eye of the Storm", which caused a worldwide sensation because of its insights into the problems of the Middle East. He eventually turned it into a book of the same name.