(Ynet News) Itay Blumental - Officers of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) caught a ring of antiquities robbers red-handed while they were illegally digging at the biblical city of Mishkana in the Lower Galilee. IAA investigator Nir Distelfeld said Mishkana "was a Jewish village during the Roman period, and is written about in the Jerusalem Talmud...located half way between Tzipori and Tiberius." The 11 antiquities robbers are all from the Israeli-Arab towns of Turan, Kafr Manda, and Bir al-Maksur.
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