Trump to return ancient oil lamps to Israel
For a time, the lamps were also stored at the house of Saul Fox, the prominent Jewish Trump donor who gave Trump the lamps
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Fast Forward Israeli antiquities remain stranded at Trump’s Florida estate as authorities fail to retrieve
Israeli clay lamps, intended for a brief exhibition in Washington D.C. in 2019, got stranded in the U.S. due to the pandemic. Recently, they were found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate
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Fast Forward Israeli Police Arrest Antiquities Smugglers Connected To Hobby Lobby
Five Palestinian antiquities dealers were arrested in Jerusalem in connection with a smuggling chain involving the American arts and crafts store Hobby Lobby, NPR reported Monday. Israeli police said they seized papyrus fragments from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a bust of an Etruscan woman, and a fresco from Pompeii, along with two black…
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Breaking News Looted 2,000-Year-Old Stones Returned to Israeli Museum
Two Roman artifacts, each more than 2,000 years old, were left in the courtyard of an Israeli museum accompanied by an anonymous note whose author claimed to have stolen them two decades earlier. The two sling stones left at the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures in Beersheba last week will be forwarded to…
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Culture Dead Sea Scrolls Come to Times Square
“Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times,” which opened on October 30 at the cavernous Discovery Times Square exhibit space in New York, touts itself as showcasing “the largest and most comprehensive collection of Holy Land artifacts ever organized.” Indeed, a more accurate title for this Bible-themed behemoth of a show, produced in…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Homer Simpson in Jerusalem
As the Forward reported, Grover from Sesame Street have just made an Israel visit. Now another animated celebrity is en-route to the Holy Land – and it’s none other than Homer Simpson, together with his darling family. They come to Israel with a church trip in an episode due to air in March. Their tour…
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