In 1967, Prawer served as chairman of the Humanities Section of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and was elected as Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.[1] In 1969, he received the Israel Prize in the humanities.[10] In 1969, he also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier.[1] In 1974, Prawer was honored as Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford,[6] In 1974, he was also awarded the Rothschild Prize and the Order of the Chevalier de L'Ordre Nationale du Mérite.[4] In 1982, he was presented with a festschrift containing papers by twenty-two historians during a special conference in Jerusalem.