Moshe Dayan, Israel’s brilliant, acquisitive and controversial general, amassed an extraordinary collection of antiquities during his military and political career. After Dayan’s recent death, the Israel Museum acquired the collection amidst still more controversy. The story unfolds in “The Dayan Saga—The Man and His Archaeological Collection,” by Leroy Aarons, an American freelance writer now living in Tel Aviv and reporting for, among other publications, Time magazine. Some magnificent examples of the Dayan collection’s many unique treasures are illustrated for the first time in this issue of BAR. In 1897, 50 years before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls […]