Zalevsky has received several honors, including the International Commission for Optics (ICO) Prize (2008), the Fund Juludan Research Prize (2009) and the Israeli Young Investigator Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for the year of 2012. In 2021 he was awarded the Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize from The Optical Society for "significant contributions to the field of optical super-resolution including the invention of many novel concepts bypassing Abbe’s limits of diffraction and the geometric limits set by the sensor."