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Yadin says that David Ben-Gurion offered him the premiership in 1963. Then as now, he explains, "I would love to continue being an archaeologist and let the politicians take care of public affairs." But he decided last year to form the Democratic Movement for Change to achieve a more representative system of elections and a variety of other domestic reforms. Thus on May 17, while professors pore over ancient texts dealing with the Essenes' struggle against the Jerusalem Establishment, Yadin's new party will make its first foray against the modern Establishment in a national election.
*Reported to be Khalil Shahin Kando, peddler of earlier Dead Sea Scrolls, though neither Yadin nor Kando will confirm this.