Awards

  • Excellent Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 2020
  • The 2019 Best Paper Award of the Journal Sustainability for the article: ‘Social Sustainability: A New Conceptual Framework’. Co-authored with Efrat Eizenberg. 2019

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  • Best Congress Paper nominees of Ecologies’ Track at the Annual Conference of AESOP- The Association of European Schools of Planning. Title of Paper: “Planning the Contemporary Risk City under the Conditions of Uncertainty.” The paper will be published in Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning. 2018The Award of the Israeli Architecture 2019. Co-authored with Uri Cohen. Project Title: Central (Park) in Jerusalem. Second Place, The Association of Engineers and Architects in Israel – AEAI, 2019
  • Elsevier Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing’ for the journal Landscape and Urban Planning ‘in recognition of the contribution made to the quality of the journal’. Awarded for review in 2017. (Impact Factor of the journal: 4.5). 2018.           
  • Elsevier Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing’ for the journal Cities ‘in recognition of the contribution made to the quality of the journal’. Awarded for review in 2017. (Impact Factor of the journal: 2.4). 2018.
  •  Elsevier Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing’ for the journal Land Use Policy ‘in recognition of the contribution made to the quality of the journal’. Awarded for review in 2017. (Impact Factor of the journal: 3.0). 2018.
  • The Award of Outstanding Teacher of the Technion. 2017.
  • Elsevier Award for the ‘Highly Cited Research in Cities’. ‘In recognition of the contribution to the quality of the journal made by Planning the resilient city: Concepts and strategies for coping with climate change and environmental risk’. This article was published in 2013. It has been the most cited article in 2014, 2015, and 2016 in Cities. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cities).
  • The Award of Outstanding Teacher of the Technion. 2015.
  • The Article Sustainable Urban Form was selected as ‘The Best of Recent North American Scholarship’ by The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), JPER, and by Renmin University (Chinese university). 2015.
  • The Award of Outstanding Teacher of the Technion. 2014
  • Landau Fellow – Leader of Science and Technology. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology2007-2009
  • 2007-2009  MA’OF Fellowship, The Council of Higher Education in Israel,  Kahanov Foundation.
  • 2004           Post Doctoral MA’OF Fellowship, The Council of Higher Education in Israel,  Kahanov Foundation.
  • PARC Research Award. Research: Planning for Spaces of Trust. – PARC – The Palestinian American Research Center USA. 2004.
  • Rothschild Post-Doctoral Fellowship. 2003.
  •  Dissertation Award of the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion, Haifa, Israel. 2003
  • Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace, Tel Aviv University: Research Award. “The Territorial Conflict in the Negev: The Creation of Spaces of Trust among Bedouin Citizens and the State of Israel.” 2003.
  • Krietman Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva. 2002.
  • Award of the Academic Association for Arab Students in Israel. 1999.
  • Ministry of Science Award, Government of Israel. 1998.
  • Graduation with Distinction Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. 1997.
  • Urban and Regional Planning Thesis Award, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Haifa, Israel. 1996.
  • Hapais Fund Award for Social Sciences Research in Israel. Awarded for the best thesis: “Evaluation of Policies of Land Allocation for Public Purposes in the Arab Sector.” 1995.
  • Umm al-Fahem Municipality Award For excellence and contribution to the city planning in Arab cities. 1995.