Carmella Yadin, wife of archaeologist Yigael Yadin, died yesterday in Hadassah Hospital after several months of being ill. Mrs. Yadin was born Dec. 1, 1921 in Jerusalem, the elder daughter of Hanna and Dr. Arthur Ruppin, the prominent Zionist writer and ideologist. Yigael Yadin and Carmella Ruppin were married in 1941. Mrs. Yadin bequeathed her body to science.
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