After a quarter century as director of the Israel Exploration Society (IES), on January 1, 2010, 92-year-old Joseph Aviram will assume the position of president. Hillel Geva, Aviram’s second in command, will become director. Alan Paris, longtime editor at IES, will become deputy director. Aviram, who began his work with the IES in 1949, has spent several decades as “the man behind the curtain” of Israeli archaeology, bringing countless excavations and publications to fruition. He orchestrated the expedition to survey and explore the caves of the Judean Desert, which resulted in Yigael Yadin’s momentous discoveries in the so-called Cave […]
