Ze’ev Meshel, renowned archaeologist and passionate desert explorer, passed away on December 14, 2024. He was 92 years old. Meshel was born in Tel Aviv to parents who had immigrated from Poland. After his military service, he pursued his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1974, he completed his doctoral thesis at Tel Aviv University on the history of the Negev during Israel’s monarchic period, which marked the beginning of a distinguished career. He then joined the university’s department of archaeology, where he taught until his retirement in the early 2000s. Meshel’s focus was the Negev and Sinai […]
