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...Jerusalem last week, Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, temporarily ignoring the Eichmann trial, ordered out his scientific troops for a major assault on Biblical history. Find Israel's first army for me, he told an assembly of his country's leading archaeologists. Dig up the remains of Abraham's band of 318 men who pulled off a nighttime pincer attack at Dan and freed Abraham's nephew Lot from Chedorlaomer, King of the Elamites (Genesis...
...present thought the request unreasonable. They had already dug farther into Israel's past. On display while Ben-Gurion spoke were more than 400 recently found, perfectly preserved, precisely carved artifacts-remnants of a little-known chalcolithic people who predated Abraham by almost 1,500 years. A second expedition of diggers had brought back fresh finds from the reign of Shimon Bar Kochba, self-styled first President of Israel, who led an unsuccessful revolt against Emperor Hadrian's Roman legions...
...Yigael Yadin, who recalls today that Beer "could do a brilliant job of military planning, but you always had to suspect his motives." Despite a sneering, officious manner, Beer rose swiftly in government circles. In 1954, he dropped out of the Marxist Mapam Party and joined Premier David Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai Party. Soon he was back in the Defense Ministry to write a history...
Beer not only browsed through the state archives but had access to Ben-Gurion's personal diaries. The Premier took an interest in the tall, bucktoothed expert and arranged his appointment as head of the military history faculty at Tel Aviv University. Beer often traveled abroad as an officially approved Israeli military authority; at home, he played, host to visiting VIPs and briefed them on Israel's defense setup...
...driver. Beer's increasingly eccentric behavior worried the secret police, and their shadowing of him paid off when Beer met privately with a known Communist agent. A search of his home turned up 60 Ibs. of documents and correspondence. On hearing of Beer's arrest, Premier Ben-Gurion groaned: "I am surrounded by treachery...