Another highlight was in 2009 when he got the prestigious Chase Scholarship award, sponsoring a Bachelor’s degree at the "Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music".

In a short time he realized that the institution setting was not suitable for him, and developed his own taste and repertoire by taking private lessons and listening to wide variety of music.

His playing on this album was described by the critic John Fordham as "somewhat reminiscent of a silky-toned old piano swinger such as the late Hank Jones".

In New York he began playing and recording in numerous groups, among them Ari Hoenig group and Oded Tzur's quartet (Hershkovits played in Tzur's albums, Here Be Dragons (2020) and Isabela (2022)) Hershkovits’ debut album, I Asked You A Question (Raw Tapes Records), was released in February 2016.

In addition, participants in the album also, Los Angeles-based singer, Brainfeeder artist, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, on two tracks ("Satellite Dish" and "My Turn").

[5] In 2020, Hershkovits joined three other musicians: Yuval Havkin, Rejoicer (keyboards), Amir Bresler (drums) and Yonatan Albalak (bass), and together the four formed a group called Apifera.