Ronny Reich (Hebrew: רוני רייך; born 1947) is an Israeli archaeologist, excavator and scholar of the ancient remains of Jerusalem.
His participation in excavations in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, carried out between 1969 and 1978 and directed by Nahman Avigad, caused a shift in his scientific interests, from the Iron Age to the Early Roman period.
He completed his Ph.D. thesis, "Miqva'ot (Jewish Ritual Baths) in Eretz Israel in the Second Temple and the Mishnah and Talmud periods", in 1990 under the supervision of Nachman Avigad and Lee I. Levine.
In addition to his two major fields of interest (ritual baths[2] and the archaeology of Jerusalem), he studied various aspects of daily life in Judaea in the late Second Temple period.
[4] Reich's main hobby is translating and publishing treatises on ancient architecture and art, plays and poetry into Hebrew.