Benjamin Z. Kedar
Israeli historian · Israel · On the map · Writers · Born 1938 · age 88
Benjamin Ze'ev Kedar is an Israeli historian, professor emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Benjamin Z. Kedar is read about 21 times a day, in 8 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 24 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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He was president of the international Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (1995-2002), chairman of the board of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2000-12) and vice-president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2010-15). He is 2019 The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture laureate in history, the 2020 Israel Prize laureate in history research in 2024 he won the Prix Gustave Schlumberger de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. and in 2026 he awarded the MGH Freiherr vom Stein Medal from the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
