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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...
When Israeli troops occupied the West Bank of the Jordan in 1967, Israel's leading archaeologist, Yigael Yadin, was able to fulfill a dream. Pulling strings with Premier Levi Eshkol, he got the army to assign an officer to visit a certain antiquities dealer in Bethlehem.* Under pressure, the dealer opened a hiding place under the floor of his shop and surrendered an ancient, partially worm-eaten scroll...
...Which was chaired by Supreme Court Chief Justice Shimon Agranat. Also on the commission were former Chiefs of Staff Yigael Yadin and Haim Laskov, Supreme Court Judge Moshe Landau and State Comptroller Yitzhak Nebenzahl...
Many Israelis object to the strong influence of orthodoxy on the country's laws and mores. "After 25 years," says Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, "we have reached the point where, for a majority of our citizens, the rabbinical authority over our way of life is third in importance after defense and the economy. Most Israelis want a pluralistic system whereby those who want to be governed by religious law can voluntarily do so, and those who want secular law in matters of personal affairs can accept that...
...militancy and militarism can blur the fine edge of moral responsibility and idealism. Biblical Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, a former army Chief of Staff, concedes that one of Israel's greatest challenges is to secure the nation's spiritual imperatives while at the same time trying to preserve its physical existence. Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig puts the matter in a different way: "The contest between the mystique of violence and the mystique of redemption is the most fateful and crucial conflict on which the future of Israeli society depends...