Professor Amos Kloner was a member of the teaching and research faculty of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University from 1980 until 2009, when he was named professor emeritus. Until shortly before his passing on March 15, 2019, he continued to teach and advise students on a volunteer basis. His fieldwork and research, which focused on the archaeology of Israel and neighboring countries during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, were astounding in terms of both quality and quantity. Amos was born in 1940 in Givatayim, near Tel Aviv, to Dina […]
