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...point out that this approach can be scientifically perilous. Says John Woodhead, assistant director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem: "It's a circular argument. Yadin used the data to prove the verse, and the verse to prove the dating of the cities." In fact, says David Ussishkin, director of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology, the gates at the the three cities don't come from a single period at all. "Hazor is probably Solomonic," he says. "Megiddo is definitely later. Gezer is either/or...
Later, as a student in the universities of Germany and Switzerland, young Weizmann met the leaders of Russian Zionism: Achad Ha-am ("One of the People"), the Gandhi of the Jewish renaissance, and Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, its practical leader. He also met Western Jews: assimilationists who wanted no part of Zionism ; dedicated Jews, like Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist Congress; elegant English Jews, like Sir Francis Montefiore, who wore white gloves to Congress meetings because he had to shake so many hands...
...Geneva and Bern ("hot-air factories," his friend Ussishkin called them), Weizmann continued to argue. He fought assimilationists and Marxist revolutionaries alike. When Lenin, Trotsky and Plekhanov (who frequented the same cafés) heard of his "counter revolutionary" talk, Plekhanov, in a rage, objected. Weizmann shot back: "But Monsieur Plekhanov, you are not the Czar...
...Menachem Ussishkin, mighty namesake of an evil King of Israel, reached the U. S. last week from Palestine. The purpose of his visit is to bolster the rage of U. S. Jews against Great Britain's recent opposition to further Jewish colonization of Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 et seq.), and to raise money for the Jewish National Fund of which he is world president. He is a short, powerfully built, deter mined man aged 63, a Russian-born engineer. He has lived in Palestine the past ten years. Nine years ago he visited the U. S. Fellow Zionists call...
...party of Jerusalem, led by the so-called "iron man," Menahem Ussishkin, a former colleague of Weizmann...
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