Eleazar Sukenik (1889-1953), scholar
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Eliezer Lipa Sukenik (1889-1953) was an Israeli scholar and archaeologist. Born in Bialystok, Poland, he studied at the University of Berlin, Germany and at Dropsie College, Philadelphia, PA. In 1911 he arrived in Israel and settled there. Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the father of Yigael Yadin, Sukenik played a central role in the early stages of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the establishment of the Essene Hypothesis. It was him who in Nov-Dec 1947 purchased from the Bedouin three of the first major manuscripts found in Cave 1, that is, the Thanksgiving Hymns, the War Scroll, and the second Isaiah Scroll.