Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli archaeologist”. Today it says “israeli archaeologist and professor emeritus of archaeology”.
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David Ussishkin is an Israeli archaeologist born in Jerusalem in 1935. Now retired (2005) as Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University where he taught since 1966, Ussishkin is an expert on the Iron Age of the Land of Israel . He has directed and co-directed important excavations at a number of sites, including Lachish , Jezreel and Megiddo . In 1968-1971 he undertook, with the assistance of his colleague Gabriel Barkay , the first complete survey of the Silwan necropolis rock-cut tombs of the Jerusalem First Temple period necropolis atop which the village of Silwan was built. David Ussishkin is the grandson of the Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin .1
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David Ussishkin is an Israeli archaeologist . Now retired (2005) as Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University , Ussishkin has directed and co-directed important excavations at a variety of sites, including Lachish , Jezreel and Megiddo .
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David Ussishkin ( Hebrew : דוד אוסישקין; born 1935) is an Israeli archaeologist and professor emeritus of archaeology.
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Israeli archaeologist David Ussishkin, 2010 David Ussishkin ( ; born 1935, aged 90–91) is an Israeli archaeologist and professor emeritus of archaeology.
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Israeli archaeologist David Ussishkin, 2010 David Ussishkin ( Hebrew : דוד אוסישקין ; born 1935, aged 90–91) is an Israeli archaeologist and professor emeritus of archaeology.
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israeli archaeologist
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israeli archaeologist and professor emeritus of archaeology
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