Tel Gerisa
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Tel Gerisa also known as Napoleon's Hill, is a Middle Bronze Age  archaeological site on the southern bank of the Yarkon River, in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

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Eliezer Sukenik
Eliezer Sukenik
Eleazar Lipa Sukenik was an Israeli archaeologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Having arrived in Palestine in 1911 he worked as a school teacher and tour guide...

 led the excavations at the site between 1927 and 1950 as part of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Palestine Exploration Fund
The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society often simply known as the PEF. It was founded in 1865 and is still functioning today. Its initial object was to carry out surveys of the topography and ethnography of Ottoman Palestine with a remit that fell somewhere between an expeditionary...

. Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

 Institute of Archaeology first excavated the site in 1976, and then from 1981 to 1995 under the direction of Ze'ev Herzog
Ze'ev Herzog
Ze’ev Herzog is an Israeli archeologist, professor of archaeology at The Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University specializing in social archaeology, ancient architecture and field archaeology...

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