Benjamin Z. Kedar

Benjamin Ze'ev Kedar (born 2 September 1938) is an Israeli historian, professor emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 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.