Efraim Lev

[1] He is the immediate past Head of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the Cairo Genizah at the University of Haifa,[2] and the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

He also headed the Eshkol Department of Multi-Disciplinary Studies for special programs and undergraduate degrees in the University of Haifa’s Faculty of Humanities (2013-2018).

He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at University College London, under the guidance of Prof. Roy Porter.

As part of this area of study, he researched the dietary remains of Neanderthal man in Kebara Cave on Mount Carmel dating back nearly 47,000-60,000 years ago.

The variety of plant species discovered indicates the human vegetal diet of the period, which included primarily the eating of various types of legumes.