Amnon Freidberg

Amnon Freidberg (; 18 September 1945 – 10 October 2020) was an Israeli entomologist. In his career he described 257 new insect taxa, predominantly flies.

Biography Freidberg was born in 1945 in Haifa. He studied biology in Tel Aviv University and worked with Professor Jehoshua Kugler in taxonomic and faunistic research. In 1971, he completed his MSc thesis on fruit flies of Israel (Tephritidae), and in 1978 his PhD dissertation on the reproductive behavior and reproductive isolation in fruit‑flies.

Taxa named in his honor