ABSTRACT
In his tribute to Chamberlain of 12 November 1940, Sir Winston Churchill (1949: 487) suggested that a person is judged not by what he or she does or does not do, but by the sincerity of his or her actions: integrity. Armed with integrity, whatever happens, one marches always “in the ranks of honour”. In this chapter I shall follow the tortuous, at times bizarre path of the history of the highest archaeological body in Israel, the “Archaeological Council”. This route takes us through a bitter and prolonged conflict between the IDAM and the IES/Hebrew University. So bear with patience the many committees and councils, mercilessly abandoned like bones of Leviathans on the forsaken shores of Israeli archaeology.
