Looting picnic at Horvat Zaak?

APPREHENDED: Antiquities thieves busted plundering ancient cave in southern Judea. Seemingly innocent picnic revealed to be an antiquities robbery with five suspects from the Negev arrested (Israel HaYom).

A group of antiquities thieves were caught red-handed as they were allegedly plundering an ancient archaeological site in southern Judea, the Israel Antiquities Authority reported last week.

The robbers were digging at Horvat Zaak, an ancient Jewish village dating back to the Second Temple period.

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