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 three Directors, Prof. Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Manfred Oeming of Heidelberg University, and Dr. Yuval Gadot of Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Oded Lipschits, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Manfred Oeming, Tel Aviv University

Alongside the excavation leaders is our team of administration and fieldwork specialists. It is our privilege to work with Dr. Liora Freud as our excavation Registrar and Ceramics Expert, and our incredible administrative team of Maddison Quail-Gates and Shai Berk!

Dr. Liora Freud
Registrar and Ceramicist

Meet the 2019 Team

Area N1

Area Supervisors:
Prof. Manfred Oeming and Prof. Josef Briffa

Area Assistants:
Christoph Wind and Kamal Morad

Area W1

Area Supervisor: Abra Spiciarich

Area Assistant: Maddison Quail-Gates

Area S1

Area Supervisor: Alexandra Wrathall

Area Assistants: Inbar Meyerson and Shai Berk

Area E3 Upper

Area Supervisor: Nitsan Shalom

Area Assistants:
Claudia Muñoz Riesco and Amit Etya

Photography and Documentation

Benjamin Sitzmann

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;