Dvoretzky had visiting appointments at a number of universities, including Collège de France, Columbia University, Purdue University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He also visited twice the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (in 1948–1950 and in 1957–1958).[5] In 1975, he founded the Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem based on the Princeton IAS model.[6] He was elected president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1974–1980) and later became the eighth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1986–1989).