Moshe Dayan had formed a new party,…

Moshe Dayan had formed a new party, Telem, earlier in 1981, which advocates unilateral Israeli disengagement from the territories occupied in the 1967 wars.

Following his death in October at sixty-six, controversy arises over his extensive private collection of antiquities, part of which he had accumulated through unauthorized and unscientific digs. (His second wife will eventually sell the collection to the Israel Museum.)