The museum has had to return thousands of objects since it opened in 2017, including thousands of clay scrolls that were stolen from Iraq and an old tablet from Mesopotamia.
Additionally, it was compelled to acknowledge that a number of the parts of the Dead Sea Scroll on exhibit in its collection were contemporary fakes.
“I don’t think a ‘purist’ agenda is very helpful here,” Prof. Aren Maeir, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University, told Haaretz.com, despite.
The fact that some of the museum’s founders and acts are dubious and that the institution obviously has a strong ideological objective. “I don’t see any issues as long as everything is done in accordance with the letter of the law.”
