Too bad to check: Are Israel's loaned antiquities at Mar-a-Lago?

Boxes full of classified U.S. government documents weren’t the only items that improperly wound up at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported Tuesday. Unlike with the government secrets, though, it isn’t clear how antiquities belonging to Israel ended up at Trump’s Florida club, or whether Trump even knows they are there. Efforts by senior Israeli officials to retrieve the national treasures have so far been unsuccessful.

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The Israeli antiquities include ancient ceramic candles that were lent to the U.S. from Israel’s national treasures collection in 2019 for a Hanukkah candle-lighting event at the White House, Haaretz reported.

[Here’s hoping this is is just a misunderstanding, or misreported by Ha’aretz, the original source of the report from The Week. — Ed]

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