Obama and the Dead Sea Scrolls

POLITICS:

A visit to view the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum is being interpreted as a presidential acknowledgement of the ancient Jewish connection to the land, and the laying of a wreath at the grave of Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, is also considered symbolically significant. (The Guardian)

UPDATE: From Eugene Kontorovich at the Volokh Conspiracy: More on the Politics of the Scrolls.