Two Palestinians were arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing a rare antique Hebrew scroll and attempting to sell it for millions of dollars...The rare historical document, handwritten in Hebrew on papyrus paper and estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, is a bill surrendering property rights. The document was written by a widow named Miryam Ben Yaakov, and hails from a period in which the people of Israel were exiled from the area and very few Jews remained.
The scroll also, unusually, clearly indicates a precise date on the first line: "Year 4 to the destruction of Israel". The intention is, presumably, either to the year 74 C.E. (the year when the Second Temple was destroyed during the Great Revolt) or to 138 A.D. (the annihilation of the Jewish settlement following the Bar Kokhva revolt).
...The document was apparently stolen from a cave within Israel's borders where antiquities raiders were digging...Police investigator Eli Cohen said Wednesday that officers was looking into how the suspects arrived at the scroll, and were they involved in other antiquities robberies.
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From AFP:
Amir Ganor, who heads the Israel Antiquities Authority's robbery prevention unit..."The document is very important from the standpoint of historical and national research. Until now almost no historic scrolls or documents from this period have been discovered in proper archaeological excavations."
"What we have here is rare historic evidence about the Jewish people in their country from 2,000 years ago," said Ganor.
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The world knows that Jews have lived there for more than 3,000 years, and that we are the only ones who's land it has ever been, yet they continue to support the "Palestinian" Arabs' false claims to the Land, which they themselves admit they only want in order to destroy us. It's obvious they are up to no good.
We need to do what we need to do. The Rebbe assured us that if we were firm, the nations would ultimately assent, but that if we were weak, the pressures against us would only increase. We are back to stay, but whether it will be easy or hard is up to us.
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