Israel Shatzman

Israel Shatzman (; 25 November 1934 – 24 October 2017) was an Israeli historian. He served as a Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem starting in 1976. He has also been a Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Open University of Israel (1979-1984), Director at the National Library of Israel (1990-1997), and served two two-year stints as President of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies. He took emeritus status at Hebrew University in 2003.

Shatzman was a scholar of ancient Rome and has written extensively on the Roman military. He also has covered Judea in antiquity, both during the pre-Roman Hellenistic period and the rule of the Hasmonean kingdom, as well as the integration into the Roman empire as Roman Judea. Provided by Wikipedia