Dr. Eilat Mazar, one of the most prominent scholars of ancient Jerusalem and an expert on Phoenician culture, passed away on May 25, 2021, at the age of 64, after a long struggle against an illness. For many years, Eilat had been a research fellow with the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and conducted excavations on its behalf at the Phoenician cemetery at Achziv and in Jerusalem’s City of David and Ophel. She also published the large-scale excavations of her grandfather, the late Professor Benjamin Mazar, president of the Hebrew University and one of the […]
