206.” The advertisement came to the attention of Yigael Yadin, the son of Prof. Sukenik who had acquired the three other manuscripts of Cave 1. Yadin, a former officer in the Israeli Army during the first Arab–Jewish War and subsequently Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, was in the United States at that time, and he arranged to purchase, on 1 July of that year, the four manuscripts through a New York banker as middleman for $250,000. The next day the scrolls were taken to the Israeli Consulate in