He participated in excavations in Israel, and his research has been published in different referenced works.

[1][2] Lifshitz was born in 1913 at Davyd-Haradok in Byelorussia, where he received his early education.

[3] In 1946, he arrived in Palestine, and began studying history and classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[4] His dissertation was entitled The Protection of Graves in Grave Inscriptions in Eretz-Israel, and while preparing his doctoral thesis, he studied Greek epigraphy in Paris with professor Louis Robert.

[3] Lifshitz was senior lecturer in classics and later a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.