During his service in the IDF, he was awarded the Israel Defense Prize. In 2003, he was awarded the Salem Prize jointly with Kannan Soundararajan. In 2004, he was awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize. In 2008, he received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award. In 2009, he was awarded the Erdős Prize. In 2009, he received the Fermat Prize. In 2010, he became the first Israeli to be awarded the Fields Medal, for his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory. References External links Homepage at Hebrew University 1970 births Living people 20th-century Israeli mathematicians 21st-century Israeli mathematicians Dynamical systems theorists Fields Medalists Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Einstein Institute of Mathematics alumni Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem International Mathematical Olympiad participants Israel Defense Prize recipients Israeli Jews Israeli people of German-Jewish descent Scientists from Jerusalem Princeton University faculty Erdős Prize recipients