His Life and His Research Activity
Kasher grew up in Kfar Vitkin, where he graduated from elementary school and high school. In his youth he wrote with his childhood friends and classmates Gad Yaacobi (later Israel minister and member of the Knesset) and Micha Gisser (later professor to economics in University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico) the feuilleton "Hilik Haviv", which used to be broadcast in the radio. In the Israeli army, he served at the Nahal.
He began his history teaching in Emek Hefer regional school in the early 1960s. He received a MA from Tel Aviv University - the subject of his thesis, completed in 1966, was history background and messaich in Aliyat Moshe.
Kasher received his PhD in Jewish studies from Tel Aviv University in 1973. The dissertation subject was "The jurisric-political class and the rights system of the Jews of Egypt in the Hellenistic period and the Roman Principate". His advisor was Professor Shimon Applebaum. His most distinguished teacher who influenced his work was professor Joshua Efron.
Kasher taught many years in the society of the Jewish People history in Tel Aviv University and officiated as the head of Center of the Study of Land of Israel and its Settlement in Tel Aviv University, that affiliated to Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute). He retired in 2005.
His proficiency is the Jews and Land of Israel during the Second Temple period.
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