Benjamin Z. Kedar
Dr. Benjamin Z. Kedar (sometimes credited as B.Z. Kedar) has been a Professor of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was also founder of their School of History, since 1986, and was awarded Professor Emeritus status in 2007. He received his M.A. there in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1969.
From 1995-2000 he served as president of the International Society for the Study of the crusades and the Latin East, and was the convener of their fifth conference in July 1999. He also has served as the chair of the board of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and chaired the Section of Humanities at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.