New Discoveries from Khirbet el-Eika, in Galilee

Sept. 28 th , 2016,

Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University
Speakers: Uzi Leibner (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Yoav Farhi (Tel Aviv University), Deby Re’em-Sandhaus (Tel Aviv University), and Gerald Finkielsztejn (Israel Antiquites Authority)

Professor Leibner and colleagues present results from the excavations at Khirbet el-Eika, a strategic fortified site in Israel’s lower Galilee that—like several other sites throughout the land—was destroyed and abandoned suddenly around 144/143 BCE.