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Courtesy of the Archive of Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem

THE BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP. Having had a fascination with archaeology since childhood, Trude Dothan began her archaeological career in 1948 while still a young soldier serving in the Israeli army. She joined her professor Benjamin Mazar in excavating the early Philistine site of Tell Qasile, now located in a northern suburb of Tel Aviv (shown here).