The Tel Azekah Excavation team is built on an international mix of archaeologists, historians, scholars, scientists, students and volunteers, who travel from across the globe every year to join us in the field.
The excavation is lead by our directors, Prof. Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University, and Prof. Manfred Oeming of Heidelberg University. Joining our directors is also Dr. Sabine Kleiman of Tübingen University.

Our excavation also couldn’t run without our team of fieldwork specialists! It is our pleasure to work with our resident Registrar and Ceramics Expert, Dr. Liora Freud.
Alongside the excavation leaders is our incredible administrative team of Maddison Quail-Gates, Daniel Nam and Itay Sharir!
Meet the 2021 Team

Area W1
Area Supervisors: Abra Spiciarich and Maddison Quail- Gates
Area Assistants: Claudia Epley and Daria Leiben Graiver

Area S3
Area Supervisor: Helena Roth
Area Assistant: Roni Sapir

Area E3 Upper
Area Supervisor: Nitsan Shalom
Area Assistants: Hannah Ripps and Shahar Gofer

Area N1 East
Area Supervisor: Josef Briffa
Area Assistants: Itay Sharir and Christoph Wind

Area N1 West
Area Supervisor: Alexandra Wrathall
Area Assistant: Daniel Nam
Excavation Partner Institutions
It is our great pleasure and honour to work with a multitude of quality academic institutions. Our partner universities are essential to the continued development of the Azekah project.
Our Partner Institutions are represented by leading academics and include;
Germany
Heidelberg University: Prof. Manfred Oeming


University of Tübingen: Prof. Dr. Jakob Wöhrle
and Dr. Sabine Kleiman

Czech Republic
Charles University: Dr. Filip Čapek, Dr. Petr Sláma, and Prof. Martin Prudký
United States of America
Notre Dame University: Prof. Abraham Winitzer


Canada
Université Laval: Prof. Jonathan Bourgel