Dr. Omri Yitzhak Abadi is a historian and archaeologist of ancient Judaism and a Research Fellow at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa (2026–2027). He received his Ph.D. from the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, where his dissertation examined the social dimensions of burial in Judea and Jerusalem during the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods. His research combines archaeological evidence, historical sources, and social and anthropological approaches to the study of ancient Jewish society.