Court rules that the Crowns of Damascus stay in National Library

COURT PRONOUNCEMENT: Jerusalem court rules National Library to keep Medieval Damascus Bibles. Decision ends a protracted legal battle over the ownership of sacred texts that belonged to Syrian Jewish community for centuries, until they were secreted to Israel in the 1990s (Ilan Ben Zion, AP via Times of Israel).

Back in 2014 I noted the litigation over the manuscripts, which are known as the "Crowns of Israel." It was an internal litigation within Israel. Syria was not involved. The link to that article is now dead, but the current article explains the details. Follow the links from my 2014 post for more about some of the manuscripts.

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