# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yizhar-hirschfeld
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:06:37.368Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yizhar-hirschfeld"
name: "Yizhar Hirschfeld"
slug: "yizhar-hirschfeld"
description: "Yizhar Hirschfeld was an Israeli archaeologist studying Greco-Roman and Byzantine archaeology. He was an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of excavations at a number of sites around Israel, including Ramat Hanadiv, Tiberias, and Khirbet ed-Deir. He also published a book on the archaeology of Qumran in which he proposed an assessment of the site that was contrary to prevailing views."
tagline: "Israeli archaeologist (1950-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yizhar_Hirschfeld1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-02-06"
deathDate: "2006-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.34
  momentum:             13.5
  historical:           4.803456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4203203/"
    handle:    "nm4203203"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yizhar_Hirschfeld"
    title: "Yizhar Hirschfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yizhar_Hirschfeld"
    title: "Yizhar Hirschfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yizhar_Hirschfeld"
    title: "Yizhar Hirschfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%96%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%93"
    title: "יזהר הירשפלד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%B1_%DB%81%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "یزہار ہیرشفیلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4600719"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump