The rare Torah scroll found in Iraq and rededicated at the Israel Foreign Ministry
The Arabic online news medium Elaph reports that the thief of a 700-year-old Torah scroll was arrested yesterday when he tried to sell it. He admitted that the scroll had been stolen from the home of a former regime official.
The defendant admitted that he is a broker, working for a dealer, who stole the Torah in the chaos prevailing during the American invasion of Baghdad in 2003.
Iraq protested earlier this year that a rare Torah scroll had been spirited away to Tel Aviv. It asked Interpol to assist in its return. Israel has confirmed that the Torah, found by US troops in Baghdad in 2003, had been repaired and a special re-dedication ceremony for it was held in Israel.
According to the US study entitled "Targeting manuscripts in Iraq during the war, 1991 - 2003," US Pentagon official Ismail Stone,was sent to supervise the body of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq after the occupation of Iraq, and it was he who was behind the transfer of manuscripts to America.
Presumably, the newspaper is referring to the hoard of Jewish documents found in the flooded basement of the secret police headquarters in 2003 and shipped to the US for restoration.
The defendant is presumably the same broker who appropriated a rare copy of the Book of Job, published in 1487, and given to an Iraqi official as a gift. Elaph quotes the veteran Mossad official Mordechai Ben Porat telling Haaretz that a rare copy of the Book of Job and a section of the Book of Prophets published in Venice in 1617, had been transferred to Israel from the secret police headquarters in Baghdad.
nnounced
in Baghdad today for the arrest of a person in possession of a copy of
the 700-year-old Torah when he tried to sell it, where admitted stolen
from the home of a former regime officials.
London:
Judge Abdul Sattar Bayrakdar, the official spokesman of the Iraqi
judiciary, said on Monday, that the detachments intelligence department
and the fight against terrorism, al-Karkh in Baghdad managed in
coordination with the Central Investigating Court to arrest the person
in possession of the book Torah enriched-old back to 700 years.
He pointed out that the defendant admitted that a broker working for a
dealer who stole the Torah from the home of one of the officials of the
former regime during the events of the ninth of April 2003, "the chaos
in the Iraqi capital after entering the US with troops and shot down the
former regime.
He said the judicial official, in a press statement seen the text
"Elaph", said the arrest of the accused, who ratified his words
judicially, was in accordance with Article 45 of the Antiquities and
Heritage Law No. 55 of 2002 average.
He explained that the adjustment process after the display has accused
the Torah for sale in one of the central areas of the capital Baghdad,
according to intelligence information, but he did not mention the
identity of the trader or Sargaha former official, who was stolen from
his home a copy of the Bible of the Jewish name of this.
It is noteworthy that Iraq had protested earlier this year on the
United States to deliver his manuscript rare Torah to Tel Aviv, called
Interpol and international organizations to assist in the recovery of
this manuscript stolen from Israel.
Israeli circles then celebrated the arrival of the Iraqi version of the
manuscript of the Torah to the Jewish state, while the circles of
parliamentary and cultural Iraqi voiced frustration with Washington
delivery of this manuscript to Tel Aviv after taking it after the
occupation of Iraq in the spring of 2003.
And it demanded the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of the Iraqi
American center "Nara" which is the maintenance and restoration of Iraqi
Archive Hebrew provide clear answers on how to access this manuscript
to Israel.
Confirmed earlier claims were submitted to the United States, "the need
to restore all the Hebrew Archive materials to his country Iraq and an
end to this file, which was scheduled to end in 2005," he said in a
press statement seen the text "Elaf" Monday.
And called on the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Iraq the
international community and international organizations, especially
UNESCO and the International Police, "Interpol" to help Iraq recover
this important manuscript traceable to him "as part of the parking
civilized world with us to recover our monuments and heritage looted,"
he said.
Israeli Foreign Ministry has confirmed the arrival of the manuscript
Iraqi Torah to Israel after being found by US troops in Baghdad in 2003,
explaining that it had been repaired during the seven-month period,
where he established the Israeli Foreign Ministry to mark the
participation of Jewish rabbis celebrate the arrival of the manuscript
to Israel.
Iraqi officials Ohdoa Israel Jewish precious manuscripts
The arrival of these Iraqi manuscript to Israel despite US promises of
previous re-Jewish archives seized by US troops immediately after the
occupation of Baghdad, the spring of 2003 to Iraq, where you expect a
competent Iraqi sources not to re-Jewish Archive full to Iraq despite
those promises, pointing to the existence of a plan to empty Iraq came
of covenantal heritage.
And a copy of the Torah those rare and was among the mysterious journey
from Baghdad to Washington after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003
finally resolved in the corridors of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in
Jerusalem, where religious decrees received punctuated by songs and
hymns and distributing candy.
He said Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the return of the
manuscript, which was found in the Iraqi intelligence warehouses in
Baghdad to the synagogue in the ministry as "representing the fate of
the Jews," while specialists Israeli acknowledged that this manuscript
is one of the remnants of the Jewish community that lived in Iraq since
ancient times and indicated that Using their access to Israel "remains
uncertain" under the provision of different theories officials and
statements about them.
The US study entitled "Targeting manuscripts in Iraq during the war,
1991 - 2003," said the representative of the Ministry of Defense,
"Pentagon" Ismail Stone, an American nationality was sent to supervise
the body of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq after the occupation of
Iraq, and it was he who was behind the transfer of manuscripts to
America.
For its part, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the Labour MP Jew
Mordechai Ben-Porat, one of the descendants of the Jews of Iraq, a
researcher at the legacy of the Jews of Babylon actually Center near Tel
Aviv, had revealed earlier that government officials in Iraq Ohdoa
Israel some of the manuscripts, ancient and precious, and they were able
to get a rare comment to the Book of Job was published in 1487 and a
section of the books of the prophets published in Venice in 1617 from
vulnerable to a former Iraqi intelligence stores.
nnounced
in Baghdad today for the arrest of a person in possession of a copy of
the 700-year-old Torah when he tried to sell it, where admitted stolen
from the home of a former regime officials.
London:
Judge Abdul Sattar Bayrakdar, the official spokesman of the Iraqi
judiciary, said on Monday, that the detachments intelligence department
and the fight against terrorism, al-Karkh in Baghdad managed in
coordination with the Central Investigating Court to arrest the person
in possession of the book Torah enriched-old back to 700 years.
He pointed out that the defendant admitted that a broker working for a
dealer who stole the Torah from the home of one of the officials of the
former regime during the events of the ninth of April 2003, "the chaos
in the Iraqi capital after entering the US with troops and shot down the
former regime.
He said the judicial official, in a press statement seen the text
"Elaph", said the arrest of the accused, who ratified his words
judicially, was in accordance with Article 45 of the Antiquities and
Heritage Law No. 55 of 2002 average.
He explained that the adjustment process after the display has accused
the Torah for sale in one of the central areas of the capital Baghdad,
according to intelligence information, but he did not mention the
identity of the trader or Sargaha former official, who was stolen from
his home a copy of the Bible of the Jewish name of this.
It is noteworthy that Iraq had protested earlier this year on the
United States to deliver his manuscript rare Torah to Tel Aviv, called
Interpol and international organizations to assist in the recovery of
this manuscript stolen from Israel.
Israeli circles then celebrated the arrival of the Iraqi version of the
manuscript of the Torah to the Jewish state, while the circles of
parliamentary and cultural Iraqi voiced frustration with Washington
delivery of this manuscript to Tel Aviv after taking it after the
occupation of Iraq in the spring of 2003.
And it demanded the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of the Iraqi
American center "Nara" which is the maintenance and restoration of Iraqi
Archive Hebrew provide clear answers on how to access this manuscript
to Israel.
Confirmed earlier claims were submitted to the United States, "the need
to restore all the Hebrew Archive materials to his country Iraq and an
end to this file, which was scheduled to end in 2005," he said in a
press statement seen the text "Elaf" Monday.
And called on the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Iraq the
international community and international organizations, especially
UNESCO and the International Police, "Interpol" to help Iraq recover
this important manuscript traceable to him "as part of the parking
civilized world with us to recover our monuments and heritage looted,"
he said.
Israeli Foreign Ministry has confirmed the arrival of the manuscript
Iraqi Torah to Israel after being found by US troops in Baghdad in 2003,
explaining that it had been repaired during the seven-month period,
where he established the Israeli Foreign Ministry to mark the
participation of Jewish rabbis celebrate the arrival of the manuscript
to Israel.
Iraqi officials Ohdoa Israel Jewish precious manuscripts
The arrival of these Iraqi manuscript to Israel despite US promises of
previous re-Jewish archives seized by US troops immediately after the
occupation of Baghdad, the spring of 2003 to Iraq, where you expect a
competent Iraqi sources not to re-Jewish Archive full to Iraq despite
those promises, pointing to the existence of a plan to empty Iraq came
of covenantal heritage.
And a copy of the Torah those rare and was among the mysterious journey
from Baghdad to Washington after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003
finally resolved in the corridors of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in
Jerusalem, where religious decrees received punctuated by songs and
hymns and distributing candy.
He said Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the return of the
manuscript, which was found in the Iraqi intelligence warehouses in
Baghdad to the synagogue in the ministry as "representing the fate of
the Jews," while specialists Israeli acknowledged that this manuscript
is one of the remnants of the Jewish community that lived in Iraq since
ancient times and indicated that Using their access to Israel "remains
uncertain" under the provision of different theories officials and
statements about them.
The US study entitled "Targeting manuscripts in Iraq during the war,
1991 - 2003," said the representative of the Ministry of Defense,
"Pentagon" Ismail Stone, an American nationality was sent to supervise
the body of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq after the occupation of
Iraq, and it was he who was behind the transfer of manuscripts to
America.
For its part, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the Labour MP Jew
Mordechai Ben-Porat, one of the descendants of the Jews of Iraq, a
researcher at the legacy of the Jews of Babylon actually Center near Tel
Aviv, had revealed earlier that government officials in Iraq Ohdoa
Israel some of the manuscripts, ancient and precious, and they were able
to get a rare comment to the Book of Job was published in 1487 and a
section of the books of the prophets published in Venice in 1617 from
vulnerable to a former Iraqi intelligence stores.
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