2004 – Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works[37] 2004 – Grinzane Cavour Prize for First Novel (Italy) for his novel Dancing Arabs[38] 2006 – Lessing Prize for Critics (Germany).[39] 2010 – Kugel Prize [he] for literature, awarded by the Municipality of Holon 2010 – Freedom of Expression Award of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (USA)[40] 2011 – Award for Best Television Series at the Jerusalem Film Festival for Arab Labor[41] 2011 – Bernstein Prize for the novel Second Person Singular[42] 2012 – Prix des lecteurs du Var readers' prize at the Var Book Fair [fr] (Toulon, Var department, France), for Second Person Singular[39]