which eventually led to the signing of the Camp David Accords and the peace treaty between Israel and its neighbor. Nevertheless, Dash itself proved to be a failure, and the party broke up into numerous splinter factions; Yadin joined the Democratic Movement, but it too split up and he sat as an independent MK for the remainder of his term. During a cabinet meeting, May 1981, while still Deputy Prime Minister, he accused Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan of "lying to the government" and told Prime Minister Begin "You have lost control of the defence establishment." He retired from politics in 1981. Yadin was married to Carmela (née Ruppin), who worked with him throughout his career in translating and editing his books and with whom he had two daughters, Orly and Littal. He died in 1984 and was buried in the military cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The Israeli actor was his brother. Published works Views of the Biblical World. Jerusalem: International Publishing Company J-m Ltd, 1959. The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands. McGraw-Hill, 1963. Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealots’ Last Stand. New York: Random House, 1966. Hazor (Schweich Lectures for 1970) The Bar Kochba Caves. (Hebrew). Maariv, 1971 Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome. New York: Random House, 1971 The Temple Scroll published posthumously London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985 Yadin published many research papers and ancient text explanations, at the Hebrew University press (in Hebrew): The Sons of Light against Sons of Darkness (from the Qumran Caves), 1955 The Message of the Scrolls, 1957 The Hidden Scrolls, 1958 The book of Ben Sira, 1965 Teffilin of Head from the Qumran caves, 1969 The Temple Scroll (from the Qumran caves), 1977 See also List of Israel's Chiefs of the General Staff List of Israel Prize recipients References Further reading Neil A. Silberman "A Prophet from Amongst You: The Life of Yigael Yadin, Soldier, Scholar, and Mythmaker of Modern Israel" Addison Wesley (1994). External links Photographs and film footage of Yadin and his archaeological excavations Interviews with the late Professor Yigael Yadin related to his archaeological discoveries 1917 births 1984 deaths Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Haganah members Jews in Ottoman Palestine Leaders of political parties in Israel Israeli archaeologists Members of the 9th Knesset (1977–1981) Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Prize in Jewish studies