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Courtesy of Sotheby’s
New Israeli Law Strips Citizenship From Convicted Terrorists Paid
by the Palestinian Authority
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, voted overwhelmingly to strip citizenship from
people who are convicted of terrorism and receive a stipend from the Palestinian
Authority, JTA.org reported.

The bill passed 94-10 on Feb. 15, with opposition coming from some Arab
lawmakers. The lopsided vote in favor of the measure stands in stark contrast
to other more controversial proposals from Israel’s right-wing government that
have come amid a recent escalation in terror attacks. National Security Minister
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right politician, supports giving some convicted terrorists
the death penalty and is pushing for a broad Israeli military campaign to root out
Palestinian terrorism.

According to the law, any Israeli citizen or resident who is convicted of a
terrorism charge and receives fi nancial support from the Palestinian Authority,
which governs some Palestinian areas of the West Bank, can be deprived of their
citizenship and deported to either the West Bank or Gaza.

Israeli press reports did not specify how many people the law may apply to.

Because Jews convicted of terrorism do not receive Palestinian fi nancial support,
the law will not apply to them. ■
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N The oldest complete copy of the Hebrew Bible as we know it today is about to
go on sale — and it could well become the most expensive book or document
ever sold, JTA.org reported.

Written by a single Jewish scribe on 400 pages of parchment about 1,100 years
ago, the Codex Sassoon is estimated to fetch $30 million to $50 million when it
is sold by Sotheby’s auction house this May.

Before then, the book is embarking on a worldwide tour that includes stops
in London, Tel Aviv and more. Those who view it will lay eyes on one of only
two known ancient manuscripts comprising almost the entire Hebrew Bible —
along with the Aleppo Codex, which is incomplete after hundreds of pages went
missing in the 20th century.

“Now that the Codex has been defi nitively dated as the earliest, most complete
text of its kind, it stands as a critical link from the ancient Hebrew oral tradition
to the modern, accepted form of the Hebrew Bible that remains the standardized
version used today,” said Richard Austin, Sotheby’s global head of books and
manuscripts. The Codex Sassoon is named after the book collector David Solomon Sassoon,
who acquired it in 1929 for 350 British pounds, the equivalent of about $28,000
today, when it resurfaced after 600 years.

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