Benno Rothenberg

Beno Rothenberg (; October 23, 1914, in Frankfurt am Main – March 13, 2012, in Ramat Gan, Israel) was an Israeli photographer, archaeologist, and one of the founders of archaeometallurgy.

Biography

Beno Rothenberg was born in a wealthy Hassidic where he started right away his studies of mathematics and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 1952 he became a photographer for the archaeological survey of the Negev desert. by a survey of the Sinai Peninsula, which fundamentally changed what was known about that region.

Though he worked for many years in the Tel Aviv University, he did not get a permanent position there, and in 1973, They are now preserved in the Meitar Collection at the National Library of Israel.

Rothenberg is considered as one of the important photographers of life in the years leading up to the founding of the State of Israel and its early years. He had access to important Israeli personalities of whom he took portraits. His illustrated books were very popular. Rothenberg also published a number of philosophy articles, along with a book of poetry.

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