Honors and Awards

November 20, 2008. Las Vegas CA World 2008. During the session of the Business Management Symposium, magazine SMART ENTERPRISE (Informationweek Group) awards EL AL IT Division as 2008 Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Enterprise IT Management, for smart and efficient implementation of Wily for on line monitoring of e-business and tickets sales on line.

October 3, 2008. Nice, France. The AMADEUS Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Highest Adoption of New e-Commerce Features and Services was award to EL AL teams by Amadeus during the 15th Amadeus e-Commerce Conference for Airlines Awards.

January 8, 2008. The Best 2007 Project of the year: The EL AL Web Team won the Company Award from EL AL IT & Organization Vice President Mr. Ofer Tsabary : Technological and Commercial Improvements of The Web; End to End Monitoring Facilities Deployment; Sale and Services Level Achievement.

December 9th, 2007. I have been awarded with the 2007 EL AL "WOW" award by Mr. Itzik Cohen EL AL ICT Division Director, for my ongoing and constant contributions to El Al Customers in addition to my colleagues. The award takes particular notice of my professional skills to maintain and exercise improvement in the Internet Systems as well as the constant availability of the internet systems.

September 10, 2007. As a competitor for the best Enterprise Implementation at CA Managetech 2007, EL AL IT Division won the "Champion of the Champions Award" for best marks and achievement in all 3 categories (Security, monitoring and service desk).

For my outstanding work and capacity planning leading the EL AL internet infrastructures and technologies to the next generation, Mr. Itzik Cohen ICT Director awarded me with the annual EL AL ICT Division Award on November 14th 2006.

For my leadership of the EL AL FLYWEB – "Connexion By Boeing" Project in October 2005, Mr. Haim Romano, EL AL President & CEO and Mr. Ronen Bar Shalom, Marketing division Director awarded me with a Certificate of Excellence.

October 29, 2006 "How does it work?" , Erez Ben-Ari journalist for the Israeli national newspaper Maariv interviewed of me about how internet works in aircrafts. The same day the article has been published on line in the NRG ( Maariv ) web site.

September 2005, EL AL in partnership with Boeing is among the very first airlines in the world to launch EL AL FLYWEB service on all its wide body aircrafts with the broadband wireless wif-fi internet service connexion by Boeing .
Some pictures from a collection in Facebook of the first flight of a Boeing 777 with Connexion in service.
September 2005, an EL AL 777-200ER Boeing airplane was the first aircraft to join the service and the first aircraft of that type, ever in active duty.
January 2006, as the Wi-Fi service improve, 4 direct TV channels are added to the service.

For my coaching of the EL AL CargoWeb project in July 2004, Mr. Amos Shapira, EL AL President & CEO, Mr. Moshe Levertov CIO and Mr. Dani Shapiro Cargo division Director awarded me with a Certificate of Excellence.

April 22, 2002 after successfull implementation of the CA Unicenter control management in El Al, a success story that has been published in Unicenter Advisor Magasine and in profservices.com quoting the Web Management XML based implement by me.

August 20th 2000, Mr. Eyal Cohen, customers support manager of NonStop!, awarded me with a Letter of Excellence for the fast and successful implementation of the Maple e-CRM-EPM. The letter was counter signed by Mr. Moshe Tsamir, Artnet Experts CEO.

January 1998, second prize at the CyberCircus Web Design Contest (for the code), design by Mrs. Shoshanna Cohen, faculty at the Haifa Wizo-Canada Design College.

July 7th, 1997, my major contribution to the world of WWW development was when I published in the Newsgroup israel.lists.il-board the way to write and read forms on web pages in any language (especially Hebrew) regardless Operation System and Browsers. This technique is in use by all web developers until today.

Patrick