Word: yadin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign characterized by dreary mudslinging, none of the three major contenders has enticed voters with an attractive image. Labor, headed by the likely winner, Acting Premier Shimon Peres, was hurt by strikes, inflation and recurring scandals. After a brisk start, the new Democratic Movement for Change, led by Yigael Yadin, appears too elitist to many voters. The right-wing opposition Likud, whose ailing leader is onetime anti-British Terrorist Menachem Begin, was accused of maintaining an illegal bank account abroad-the issue that forced Rabin to step down last month. Last week all campaigning was halted as the country mourned...
Founded by Dead Sea Scrolls Archaeologist Yigal Yadin, Israel's onetime Chief of Staff, the party has an imposing roster of intellectuals and former generals on its slate. Although voters fancy Yadin's attacks on corruption and demands for reforms in Israel's complex, indirect election system, many are puzzled by the new party's lack of ideological focus. Even so, pollsters predict that the D.M.C. could hold the balance of power in the new Knesset...
Says a spokesman for the right-wing Likud coalition: "Everything leads to the conviction that Labor will not head the government any longer." Not quite. Likud Leader Menachem Begin is still in the hospital after a severe heart attack, and Yigael Yadin, head of the upstart Democratic Movement for Change, is fighting libel charges. Even so, Labor Stalwart Abba Eban confessed to doubts that the party "can still turn the wheel and gain momentum." If not, the sad end of Yitzhak Rabin could be followed by the demise of the Labor government he has suddenly ceased to lead...
Ultimately, God would create the final Temple himself: on "the day of blessing . . . I will create my Temple and establish it for myself for all time." Yadin theorizes that the early Christians came in contact with the Essenes and turned their temporary rejection of the temple into a permanent belief...
With his Temple Scroll labors finally behind him, Yadin, 59, is plunging into a new enthusiasm: politics. Not that his career has been confined to the campus. He was head of the operations division during Israel's 1948 war of independence, and he served three years as chief of staff of the new nation's army. Resuming his work as an archaeologist. Yadin led the digs at biblical Megiddo and Hazor and at the Masada fortress where Jewish Zealots held off a Roman siege for three years before committing mass suicide...