Uriel Rappaport

Uriel Rappaport (Hebrew: אוריאל רפפורט; 1935 – 20 December 2019) was an Israeli historian. His area of research focus was the Second Temple period (6th century BCE – 1st century CE), including Hellenistic Judaism, the Maccabean Revolt, the Hasmonean kingdom, and the First Jewish–Roman War. He became a professor of Jewish History at the University of Haifa and served as a rector of the university from 1983 to 1985. He was a member of the Council for Higher Education in Israel in 1987–1989 and 1998–2001, and served as a chairman of the Humanities Committee at the Israel Science Foundation. Rappaport took emeritus status at Haifa in 2003, and served as president of Kinneret College in 2002–2006.