Word: yadin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though out of sight, Begin has not been entirely out of public mind: he has been interviewed on Israeli radio, most recently last week, after the death of his former Deputy Prime Minister, Yigael Yadin...
...capital to call for the retirement of former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, his supporters, mostly Sephardim, stormed the rally, screaming obscenities and tearing up placards. One demonstrator was killed. In explaining why he forsook a career as a distinguished archaeologist to enter politics, the late former Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin of the Likud coalition said, "I thought [the ethnic trouble] was the greatest danger to Israel, more than all the Arabs put together...
DIED. Yigael Yadin, 67, Israel's premier archaeologist and the epitome of that nation's citizen-soldier-politician tradition, who twice set aside his passion for the past, first to become a hero of the 1948 war of independence and Israeli chief of staff from 1949 to '52, later to serve as Deputy Prime Minister under Menachem Begin from 1977 to '81; of a heart attack; in Hadera, Israel. As operations chief...
Israel's illegal pre-independence army, Yadin used his knowledge of biblical history and ancient fortifications to help construct modern battle plans. Two decades later, after gaining acclaim for obtaining the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient manuscripts, he led the excavations at the fortress of Masada, where he proved that nearly 1,000 Jewish defenders committed suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to the Romans...
...seems like a case of discrimination," said Yadin B. Kaufmann, president of the Harvard Jewish Law School Association, "There are plenty of others days to choose from, and the university has been so insensitive as to choose a Jewish holiday. I think this is an issue of Harvard placing itself before God and country...