https://www.businessinsider.com/israel- ... ort-2023-7
I like how they are still pussy footing around this with words like "But somehow the antiquities ended up at Mar-a-Lago, where they remain to this day" and "It's also unclear if Trump knows they are being stored at his residence."
They were loaned to the USA to be used in a White House Hanukkah event attended by Trump then they were supposed to be put on display but were not due to an "unspecified bureaucratic event".
Here is what happened.
Trump saw them, and he told people to take them because he wanted them, so they took them to Mar-A-Lago and kept them.
Israel wanted Saul Fox, to keep the artifacts until they could be retrieved. But a Billionaire mega-donor can pretty much do as they please. Plus Fox was one of the biggest Trump supporters with money.
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/30/don ... megadonor/
The thing is if they come right out and call Trump a thief, which he is, they will never get them back in one piece and they may piss off one of the biggest donors to the Israeli Antiquities Authority, Saul Fox. So they will have to either file charges, sue or just accept the fact that Trump owns this shit now.