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=== Voluntary ===
Berry's involvement in the academic, public and business sectors are intertwined with volunteer activities which are based on her stated goal to harness information technology (IT) for empowering knowledge and other research areas, and to create social progress and economic growth among the local Israeli community and the international community in the U.S. and Europe.
Among her voluntary activities, Berry served as a member of the board of directors of the Kav Mashve Association, a non-profit organization for promoting Arab Academics employment based on their academic background and skills, a member of the board of directors of BG Negev Technologies, a member of the patents and intellectual property policy committees at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and she still serves as member of the executive committee of Ben Gurion University and board member of Ramot, the technology transfer company of Tel Aviv University, and TAU Ventures.
Berry was a member of the WIR (Women in Industrial Research) expert group which presented findings to The European Commission. She was also a member of the EURAB Research Council, where she replaced Professor Ruth Arnon as a member and contributed to studies on the expansion of competitiveness and growth as a result of extending the use of science and technology among other topics.
Berry was a member of the research team of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Since 2000, Berry has volunteered to promote education, employment equality, social inclusion and welfare in Israel and around the world, along with promoting Israel's position in the world.
From 2009 to 2017, Berry was the chairperson of the Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Chamber of Commerce (IACC).
From 2010 to 2017, she served as the chair of the executive committee of the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, where she also served on the board of trustees.

== Awards and honors ==
Berry has been the recipient of the following awards:

2021: Hugo Ramniceanu Prize in Economics from Tel Aviv University
2021: Peres Center for Peace and Innovation Award
2019: Ranked 51st on the "100 most influential people in Israel" list compiled by Israeli financial magazine The Marker
2018: Cyber Protector Award during Israeli Cyber Week
2018: Honorary degree from McGill University
2017: Honorary fellowship award from the Academic College of Tel Aviv Yafo
2017: Honorary fellowship award from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC).
2015: Certificate of appreciation from the Israeli branch of IEEE
2014: Inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame
2012: "Yekirat HaNegev" award from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2012: Ranked 70th on the "100 most influential people in Israel" list compiled by Israeli financial magazine The Marker.
2011: Viterbi Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering
2008: Ranked 4th in the "most influential women in the Israeli capital market" survey by Israeli economic news portal Calcalist
2005: Named "One of the 25 most influential and important women in the technology world" by American technology magazine Red Herring

== Research and publications ==
"Speeding up distributed simulation using the time warp mechanism" (Doctoral dissertation, 1986)
"Optimized virtual time synchronization" (Computer Performance and Reliability Conference, 1987)
"A network management language for OSI networks" (SIGCOMM, 1988)
"Women in industrial research: A wake-up call for European industry" (women in Industrial Research report to the European Commission, 2003)
"EURAB Activity Report" (European Commission, 2005)
"Globalization and Offshoring of Software: A Report of the ACM Job Migration Task Force" (ACM, 2006)
"Emerging markets - Israel's technology industry as an economic growth engine" (Communications of the ACM, 2009)

== Personal life ==
Berry's mother, Raisa Shrira, was a nurse who served in the Palmach and the camps in Cyprus during the British administration in Israel, as well as in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer and the public orthodox health care services in Bnei Brak after the establishment of the state of Israel.
Her father, Yoash Tsiddon (Chatto), was involved in Ha'apala activities of illegal Jewish immigration from Europe and Cyprus detention camps (where he headed one of the camps) to Israel and as a member of the Palmach, he accompanied convoys to Jerusalem during the 1948 1947–1949 Palestine war. Tsiddon was amongst the first combat pilots of the Israeli Air Force, where he founded the 119 Squadron, was the sole pilot in Operation Tarnegol, served as an air force base deputy commander, and became the head of planning and  means of combat in the air force before being demobilized as a colonel after 41 years of service. As an entrepreneur and industrialist, Tsiddon won the title of "Outstanding Exporter" and later on was elected to the Knesset as a member of Tzomet party.
Her brothers are Professor Daniel (Dani) Tsiddon, former deputy CEO and head of Capital Markets, Private Banking & Strategy Division at Bank Leumi, and attorney Ram Tsiddon. Berry, who currently lives in Tel Aviv is the mother of three children (Amit, Yael, and Avital) and the grandmother of four grandchildren.

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