An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian man caught stealing antiquities from an ancient burial cave in the West Bank. The man, who stole the items from a cave near the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, was sentenced to five months in jail, Israel’s Antiquities Authority said Wednesday.
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