Rabei G. Khamisy is Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology in Haifa and a member of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology. His current fieldwork includes excavations in the Frankish sites of Montfort Castle, Castellum Regis and Khirbat al-Manhata, as well as excavations in the Templar fort at Dor.

Rafael Y. Lewis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Land of Israel Studies at Ashkelon Academic College, a senior fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and a research associate at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology in the University of Haifa.

Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel is Architect and Archaeologist working in the Archaeological Research Department, Israel Antiquities Authority. Her research focuses on medieval architecture, particularly building materials and technologies in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. She is currently leading the research project on 'Atlit Castle.