Raphael Levy

Raphael Levy (d. 1995) has been a newspaperman, filmmaker and public relations executive. His interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls began soon after 1954 when, as the Public Relations Director of the United Jewish Appeal, he met Yigael Yadin, who had come to lecture in the United States at the invitation of the UJA. At one point, Yadin suddenly cancelled his remaining UJA appearances and returned to Israel. A year later he explained why—he had rushed back to carry out the secret negotiations that led to Israel’s purchase of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Levy’s interest in the Scrolls and in Solomon Schechter is also partly familial. He remembers that when he was a very young boy, he met Schechter, his grand-uncle.