Varda Sussman

Varda Sussman was raised on Kibbutz Pardess Hanna and attended an agricultural high school. Her strong feeling for the land led her to study for her B.A. and Master’s degrees in archaeology immediately following her army service in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. Sussman studied at Hebrew University under such masters as Eliezer Sukenik and Michael Avi-Yonah. She participated in the first excavation at Masada in 1955. Sussman works as a Curator for the Israel Department of Antiquities in Jerusalem.