Gohberg joined the faculty at Teacher's college in Soroca, at the teachers col- lege in Bälti before returning to Chisināu where he was elected into the Academy of Sciences and also being appointed head of functional analysis at University of Chisinäu (1964-1973). After moving to Israel, Israel joined Tel Aviv University (1974) and was at the Weizmann Institute at Rehovot. Since then he also had positions at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (1983), as wel as at University of Calgary and University of Maryland, College Park. He founded the Integral equations and ope- rator theory journal (1983). Gohberg was the visionary and driving force of the International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications, starting with its first meeting on August 1, 1981. He became a lifetime president of the IWOTA Steering Committee and a founder of the Springer / Birkhäuser Verlag book series Operator 'Theory: Advances and Applications. Gohberg was awarded the Humboldt Prize in 1992. He received honorary doctorates from the Darmstadt University of Technology in 1997; from the Vienna University of Technology in 2001; from Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara in 2002; from Universitatea de Stat din Moldova, Chisinãu, Moldova in 2002; from Universitatea de Stat "Alecu Russo" din Balti, Balti, Moldova in 2002; and from Technion, June 2008. He also was awarded the M.G. Krein Prize of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 2008, and was elected SIAM Fellow in 2009.