Amnon Ben-Tor, Zeev Weiss and Jodi Magness have each been awarded a 2006 Irene Levi-Sala Prize for Books on the
Archaeology of Israel.

Dr. Ben-Tor was awarded $4,000 for two volumes of the final excavation report of Yoqne’am, Yoqne’am II:
The Iron Age and the Persian Period and Yoqne’am III: The Middle and Late Bronze Ages. The first volume was
published in 1996. According to the committee report on the awards, the excavation reports are “masterfully
edited” and make an “important contribution to the settlement history and material culture of northern
Israel.”

Dr. Weiss was awarded $3,000 for The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message Through Its Archaeological
and Socio-Historical Contexts. Weiss, the director of the excavation at the Sepphoris synagogue, pays particular
attention to the mosaics in the synagogue and offers, according to the awarding committee, “a well-researched and
thoughtful commentary.”

Dr. Magness was awarded $2,000 for a popular non-fiction work on the archaeology of Israel with her volume, The
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