Israeli Antiquities Authority Wants Book Thrown at Golan

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The Antiquities Authority, backed by State Attorney Moshe Lador, has launched a desperate rearguard action to reverse its humiliating defeat in a seven-year trial that ended with the acquittal of an Israeli collector accused of faking the burial box of the brother of Jesus and an inscribed stone tablet that may have hung on the wall of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. The latest twist came during a routine sentencing hearing at the Jerusalem District Court last Tuesday, two months after the stunning collapse of the high-profile prosecution.

Read more at: Matthew Kalman, 'Court says ‘not guilty,’ Antiquities demands punishment', Jerusalem Post 12th May 2012.