The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, May 12, 1982-Page 7 Israel provides funeral service for ancient dead NAHAL HEVER, Israel (AP)- Israel gave an elaborate military funeral Tuesday for ancient bones iden- tified with Bar-Kochba's revolt against Roman rule, in a ceremony that pitted patriotic orators against derisive demonstrators wearing foil helmets and bedsheets. While Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Israel's chief rabbis praised the heroism in the revolt that cost an estimated 580,000 Jewish lives, the ar- chaeologist who found the bones boycotted the funeral and 30 protesters mocked the idea by dressing as Bar- Kochba's warriors. ISRAELI soldiers seized placards calling the funeral "a disgrace to Israel." One protester shouted, "This ceremony contradicts almost every principle of sanity that this country was conducted on in the past. Now madness has taken over and this madness makes soldiers beat civilians." The protesters, who had hiked three hours from a nearby kibbutz to the remote site, did not disrupt the burial itself. It was held on the bare and rocky rim of a deep canyon called Nahal Hever in the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea and within sight of the caves where the bones were found. ABOUT 20 dignitaries, including President Yitzhak Navon and members of Begin's cabinet, were taken by helicopter to Nahal Hever. Military rabbis chanted prayers, an honor guard fired rifle volleys over the mass grave and eulogies were given by Begin and the country's two chief rab- bis. The ceremony cost an estimated $250,000, sparking further criticism in Israel's hard-pressed economic situation. Bar-Kochba led a revolt against the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the years 132-135, establishing a brief indepen- dent rule that was the last Jewish ad- ministration in the Holy Land until the modern Jewish state was declared in 1948. YIGAEL YADIN, one of Israel's leading archaeologists, found letters from the Bar-Kochba era in a cave in Nahal Hever. He also found 19 skeletons, and they were interred Tuesday along with parts of six other skeletons discovered in a nearby cavern. Some Israeli analysts are skeptical of lionizing the Bar-Kochba rebels. The rebellion cost many lives and ended with the Jews being dispersed away from the Holy Land for over 1,800 years, these analysts say. Begin's eulogy addressed the remains in the four flag-drapped coffins as "our glorious fathers" and praised their battle. The victorious Romans erased the Jewish names for the land- Judea and Israel-and called it "Syria et Palestina," Begin said. NOW, THE prime minister said, "Israel and Judea are reborn, carried by the judges of Israel from the four corners of the earth. Our sons have returned. We have liberated all of the western land of Israel. We have redeemed Jerusalem and united it into one city for generations." 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