Word: archaeologists
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Solution Wanted. But Begin is more interested in wooing Archaeologist-General Yigael Yadin's Democratic Movement for Change, which won 15 seats at the expense of the Labor alignment. Yadin, who wants the Foreign Minister's portfolio that Begin offered to Moshe Dayan (TIME, June 6), last week stressed that serious ideological differences still separate the D.M.C. and Likud: "They say there should be Israeli sovereignty between the sea and the River Jordan, and we say there should be territorial compromise for peace. The question is: What will happen within the next year or two?" On the West...
James Pritchard. L.H.D.. biblical archaeologist...
...Guri-on, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir?Israel's 2.2 million voters gave Begin's Likud 44 seats in the new 120-member Knesset, a gain of five. Labor ended up with 33 seats, a loss of 18 from the previous parliament. The new Democratic Movement for Change, led by Archaeologist and Onetime Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin, won 15 seats, most of them clearly at Labor's expense. Expectations are that Likud will be able to form a fragile, right-wing coalition government with the support of Israel's three religious parties (16 seats in the new Knesset...
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...
...this can be an obsessive pursuit, one of Minoan complexity. Tracing a family back to 1600 will involve roughly 65,000 ancestors, or half a million if you go back to 1500. The pastime demands the nose of a scandalmonger, the connective skills of an archaeologist and the flat-footed persistence of a private eye. It also helps if one is a linguist, a lawyer, a historian, a geographer and the bearer of a free pass on the world's airlines. It can lead to unpleasant surprises, such as finding that an ancestor was deported from Britain...