HAIFA (VINnnews) — During a raid in the Druze village of Yarka Monday to locate illegal drugs, Israeli police were surprised to recover sections of a 450-year-old Torah scroll. Aided by a police dog, officers conducted a search on a house in the northern Israeli village on suspicion of illegal drugs and weapons. In one of the bedrooms, police discovered what appeared to be very old sections from a Torah scroll.
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Inspectors from the Israel Antiquities Authority were called to the scene and estimated that the manuscripts were around 450 years old. The manuscripts appear to be a section from the book of Exodus describing the construction of the tabernacle and a section from the beginning of the book of Deuteronomy.
The pieces of the Torah scroll were handed over to the Antiquities Authority for further research and safekeeping.
At the same time, police seized a quantity of marijuana divided into bags of around 200 grams, as well as M-16 rifle parts and ammunition.
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the raid. They were identified as Druze residents of Yarka in their 20s and 50s respectively.
NESS !
I hope they didn’t use the parchment paper to roll marijuana cigaretes