Ben Porat presidential award (1998) for the most prominent young investigator (under 40) in all fields at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Zohary returned to Israel in 1994, and established a visual neuroscience research group at the department of Neurobiology, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 2010 he was invited to join the newly established Edmond and Lilly Safra Center for Brain Science, and is current member of its faculty.
[7] After establishing his own lab at the Hebrew University Zohary and colleagues studied the neural basis of associative memory.
[12] Moreover, targeted disruption of the normal activity in the “visual” cortex during verb generation lead to errors in task performance in the congenitally blind but not in the sighted.
Zohary's Project Eye Opener,[17] is centered around children in Ethiopia that have been blind from birth for years due to untreated cataract.
Project eyeopener enables a rare assessment of vision restoration after the “critical period" for visual development.