Professor Meir Benayahu z”l
Via H-Judaic: Professor Meir Benayahu z”l has passed away in Jerusalem.
From a young age, Benayahu became known as a great expert in the
reading of ancient manuscripts, deciphering their content, and
identifying their authorship and time periods. His expertise in the
field of Hebrew paleography redeemed thousands of manuscripts, letters
and certificates from all over the world from oblivion, documents that
would become an unceasing source for Jewish historical research of the
Mediterranean basin, a field that had previously been neglected.
See here for a full biography. יהי זכרו ברוך.