Template:Multiple issuesProfessor Seymour (Sy) Gitin (born 1936) is an American archeologist specializing in Ancient Israel, with a focus on the late Israelite and late Philistine periods. Professor of Archaeology since 1979, in 1980 he became Director (Dorot Director from 1994) of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem (AIAR).