• Israeli Prime Minister's Prize, 2010 .
  • Israeli Prime Minister's Prize. 2001 
  • ACUM (Israeli ASCAP) award for lifetime achievements in composition and education.  
  • Judges' Prize , ACUM (Israeli ASCAP), 1992 
  • Municipality of Tel Aviv,  Engel Prize, 1991 
  • ACUM Prize  for A Letter to Stravinsky 1991 
  • Municipality of Haifa, the Mark Lavri Prize for The Golem, 1991  
  • Guggenheim Fellowship for composition, 1981  
  • The Brooklyn College Opera Theater Chamber Opera Composition  Contest, special award, 1981  
  • ACUM  Prize, stipend for completion of Violin Concerto, 1977  
  • Composers' Conference Felloship, Johnson, Vermont 1974 & 1975  
  • ISCM Electronic Music Competition, 1975  
  • Orr Prize, Jerusalem, And There Arose a Mist - Cantata for Choir, Magnetic Tape, Percussion and Brass Quintet