On a sparkling day last spring, the cornerstone was laid for a new facility at Tel Aviv University, to be known as the Jacob M. Alkow Building for Archaeology. The building, which will house lecture halls and space for the storage, conservation and display of archaeological artifacts, was made possible by a $6 million gift from Jacob Alkow, an American businessman who died in 1998 at the age of 96. Alkow’s extraordinary bequest also established the university’s Alkow Chairs for the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages and for the History of the Jews in the […]
