Appointment period: 1/2/2022 – 31/11/2025

Dr. Meir Edrey is the Professional Director of the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies. He is also a Research Associate of the institute, as well as an Adjunct Lecturer and Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Maritime Civilizations. 

Meir’s research focuses on the Phoenician Culture during the first millennium BCE in the Orient and the Occident, dealing specifically with issues related to Phoenician terrestrial and maritime religion and cultic practices.

His recent studies include different aspects of the material culture of Tel Kabri, Tel Achziv, and the underwater site of Shavei Zion together with Prof. A. Erlich and Prof. A. Yasur-Landau. He is also the director of the Kh. es-Suwweida Excavation Project (GIF funded), an Iron Age fort on the southern Carmel. 

E-mail: medrey@univ.haifa.ac.il