Amnon Ben-Tor, one of the giants of biblical archaeology and long-time excavator of the biblical site of Hazor in northern Israel, passed away on August 22. He was 87 years old. Ben-Tor belonged to the first generation of Israeli archaeologists trained in the State of Israel. He began his studies in 1955 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he participated in his first study excavation at Hazor, which was then directed by the pioneering Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin. In 1969, Ben-Tor completed his Ph.D. and became a lecturer at the Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology. He was named the […]
