Authors

Yosef Garfinkel (“REJECTED! Qeiyafa’s Unlikely Second Gate”) is the Yigael Yadin Chair of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of the renewed excavations at Lachish. Garfinkel has also directed excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, Sha’ar Hagolan and Gesher.

Saar Ganor (“REJECTED! Qeiyafa’s Unlikely Second Gate” is an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He codirected the excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa.

Joseph Baruch Silver (“REJECTED! Qeiyafa’s Unlikely Second Gate”), an immigrant to Israel from Canada, served in the Israel Defense Forces and studied toward a B.A. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a licensed tour guide.