Word: yigael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bridal Rights. The Bar Kochba explorers-160 soldiers, students and kibbutz volunteers-had been led to the desert badlands just west of the Dead Sea by Archaeologist and former General Yigael Yadin. They found a treasure their first day at the diggings. In the same bat-infested, three-chambered Cave of Letters where he had discovered the rebel chieftain's papyri orders just a year ago. Archaeologist Yadin found some 60 more documents in a goatskin and a leather...
...Palestine in 1938. Posing as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, he was eagerly welcomed into the ranks of Haganah, the Jewish underground army. Beer served in the 1948 war against the Arab states, but was kicked out of the Israeli army in 1950 by Chief of Staff 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...
...leading outdoor activity in Israel is Biblical archaeology-digging up traces of heroes and villains who died thousands of years ago but who seem to enthusiasts almost as real as Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. Last week Soldier-Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, Israel's Chief of Operations in the Palestine war of 1948 and the general who chased the Egyptians out of the Negev by a strategic plan derived from the Old Testament, offered proof that the celebrated ruin at Megiddo was not built by King Solomon, as had been supposed. Instead it was built by the "wicked...