Four Israelis were charged with forging major Jewish and Christian antiquities. Jerusalem police said Wednesday that Oded Golan, Robert Deutsch, Shlomo Cohen and Faiz Al-Amaleh had taken relics and added inscriptions so that they could be sold as biblical artifacts.
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