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Haim Gitler

Haim Gitler is an Israeli curator and numismatist who serves as chief curator of archaeology and curator of numismatics at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

born 1962Curating the Israel Museum's coinsResearch on Persian-period local coinageLeading the Israel Numismatic Society

Born: 13 April 1962, Mexico City
Occupation: curator, researcher, numismatist, archaeologist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

Haim Gitler was born in 1962 in Mexico City

Haim Gitler was born in Mexico City in 1962. He moved to Israel in 1974.

He earned his BA and MA in archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2011 he received a PhD from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. His doctorate dealt with coins of the Land of Israel in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods.

Gitler joined the Israel Museum in 1987 and became its curator of numismatics in 1994. He oversaw the renewal of the coin galleries in 1994 and 2010. In 2013 he was named chief curator of archaeology, responsible for the archaeology wing, the Shrine of the Book and the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum.

He taught numismatics at the Hebrew University and at Tel Aviv University. He led the Israel Numismatic Society from 2005 to 2016 and again from 2018, and founded its journal in 2006. In 2022 he joined the committee of the International Numismatic Council as its secretary, the first Israeli scholar on it.

His research covers coins of Philistia, Samaria, Judea and Edom, and he joined digs in Israel and Jordan. He also served on the Bank of Israel committee for planning coins and banknotes. He is a photographer whose work was shown in 3 solo exhibitions in Israel.