An extremely rare certificate from the days of the First Temple was returned to the State of Israel in an intelligence operation
There are only three papyri from this period in the Israeli state treasures • The certificate was returned thanks to the cooperation of the Robbery Prevention Unit at the Antiquities Authority, Prof. Shmuel Ahitov, winner of the Israel Bible Prize, the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage • To be published for the first time to the general public at the 1st Judean Desert conference, which will be held Next Thursday at the Biblical Lands Museum in Jerusalem In an intelligence effort, the Antiquities Authority's Robbery Prevention Unit, in cooperation with Prof. Shmuel Ahitov, winner of the Israel Prize for the Bible, and with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage, succeeded in returning to the possession of the State of Israel a document written on papyrus from the time of the First Temple. The artifact which is written in ancient Hebrew script (Paleo-Hebrew) thought to
