for Economics, all from Tel Aviv University. He received the Heim Herzog prize for unique contribution to the state of Israel from the Hebrew University and the President Herzog Foundation. He also received the CEO's Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame from the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization, and a Certificate of Merit for the pioneering of the software industry and Information Technology from the Israel Chamber of System Analysts, as well as the Innovation Leadership Medal from the European Alliance for Innovation. He was nominated as one of The Most Influential International Executives by The Industry Standard, cited by Haaretz newspaper as one of the 50 "persons of the decade" for the first decade of the 2000s, was elected by Israel 21c to the top 10 icons of Israeli high tech - the pioneers, by The Algemeiner for the "Jewish 100 - the top 100 people positively influenced Jewish life" and by Wired magazine as number 9 of the Wired 2014 top 100. Published works International Herald Tribune: An Alternative Voice: Studios and Networks Just Don't Get It,2001 Partnership in Development 1998 Co-author of Electric Energy Generation: Economics, Reliability and Rates, published by MIT Press The Annals Of Improbable Research: Snails Are Faster Than ADSL Variable Load Pricing in the Face of Loss of Load Probability, by Joseph Vardi, Jacob Zahavi, and Benjamin Avi-Itzhak. Rand Journal Of Economics, Spring 1977 (Volume 8-1), pages 270–288 A unified approach to support planning decisions in electrical power generating systems / von Jacob Zahavi; Joseph Vardi and Benjamin Avi-Itzhak In: Energy policy. – Amsterdam : North-Holland Publ. Co., . – 1978, S. 129–145 See also Silicon Wadi Science and technology in Israel References 1942 births Living people 3i Group people Businesspeople in software Israeli chief executives Israeli inventors Israeli investors Israeli Jews People from Tel Aviv Place of birth missing (living people) Technology company founders Israeli company founders Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Israeli Venture capitalists