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Archaeologists working in the Negev desert of Israel have discovered a large, luxurious Islamic mansion from the region’s early transitional Islamic period.
The Heliodorus Stele, a looted artifact at the Israel Museum, tells a story about Michael Steinhardt’s complicated legacy of giving and taking.
Prosecutors in New York have condemned Steinhardt’s “rapacious appetite for plundered artifacts,” banning him last month from trading in antiquities amid charges he collected stolen artifacts.
Links between the Heliodorus Stele, Birthright Israel, and accused billionaire illuminate just how complicated a relationship Israel has with the megadonor philanthropist