Israeli police officer entered West Bank with IDF troops to seize ancient stone

Israeli officer ’seized ancient stone’ during West Bank raid

An Israeli police officer has been accused of seizing an ancient stone from a West Bank village, the latest act by 'amateur archaeologists' using the military to nab artefacts from Palestinian areas or prove 'Jewish links' to Arab land. Meir Rotter, head of the Israel Police's ultra-Orthodox community department, was friends with Zeev Erlich, a Jewish settler and amateur 'historian', who was killed while taking part in an incursion with the Isra…

Israeli police officer entered West Bank with IDF troops to seize ancient stone

Meir Rotter, head of the police's ultra-Orthodox community department, confiscated a carved lintel from a home in Kafr Dhaba without Civil Administration archaeologists present and in an area under Palestinian Authority control; police say the incident will be investigated