Amnon Ben-Tor

Amnon Ben-Tor has led the Hazor excavations since 1990. He is the Yigael Yadin Professor in the Archaeology of Eretz Israel at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a post he has held since 1988. He has participated in digs since 1963 and has spent many seasons at Yoqne’am and Tel Qashish, as well as at Horvat Usa, Tel Yarmuth, Azor, Tel Qiri and Athienou (Cyprus).

He co-authored Yoqne’am I: The Late Periods (Jerusalem, 1996) and Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley (Jerusalem, 2003). He recently edited Yoqne’am II: The Iron Age (Jerusalem, 2005) and Yoqne’am III: The Bronze Age (Jerusalem 2005).