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Donald Trump provides a nonstop stream of outrageous, appalling, and gross headlines, and we’ve come to take that for granted. This is the weirdest Trump news in a while, though. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Israeli antiquities loaned to the White House in 2019 are now at … Mar-a-Lago. Israel would like them back but has been unable to get them.
The antiquities, including ancient ceramic oil lamps that are part of Israel’s national treasures collection, were supposed to be displayed at the White House for Hanukkah, then returned within weeks. They didn’t end up being displayed, but they weren’t returned on time, either, and then the COVID-19 pandemic complicated efforts to reclaim them. “We wanted our man to go and bring it back, but then Covid broke out, and everything got stuck,” Israel Hasson, then the director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority, told Haaretz.
