Emanuel Marx, Israeli anthropologist and expert on Bedouin societies, passed away on February 13, 2022; he was 94. Marx earned his master’s degree in Middle East history at the Hebrew University. In 1959, a scholarship enabled Marx to study for a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester in England. His dissertation, which focused on the Negev’s Abu Gweid tribe, was published as Bedouin of the Negev (1967) and includes ethnographic, geographic, and historical data that are invaluable for archaeologists. In 1964, Marx established Tel Aviv University’s Department of Anthropology and Sociology, where he taught until his retirement in 1995. […]