Strata: Milestones: Amnon Rosenfeld (1944–2014)

Dr. Amnon Rosenfeld was killed in a tragic traffic accident on Thursday, July 10, 2014. His wife, Tamar, was seriously injured and is at the Sheba Hospital. We wish her a complete recovery. Amnon and Tamar have two children, Shirley and Liran, and five grandchildren.

Amnon was born in Haifa in 1944. He completed his B.Sc. in Geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and continued to a doctorate at Kiel University in Germany on ostracodes (a class of crustaceans). He was the chief researcher for this field in the Paleontological Department of the Geological Survey of Israel.

Amnon published numerous articles and monographs on ostracodes, mainly from the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods, in relation to the stratigraphy and geology of Israel and the Middle East. His studies are highly regarded in the scientific community, and his new methods are widely used among researchers.

His deep interest in history, art and archaeology led him to study archaeological findings from Israel and surrounding countries. He is well known to BAR readers for his scientific studies, in collaboration with others, of the famous Jehoash inscription, which, if authentic, may be a rare relic from Solomon’s Temple. He was of the view that it is authentic.