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In this Oct. 5, 2014 file photo, a library official shows a Jewish manuscript smuggled into Israel from Damascus in a Mossad spy operation in the early 1990s, in Jerusalem. The manuscript is one of the earliest existing complete manuscripts of the Hebrew bible. Two decades after Israeli spies helped whisk eight ancient Hebrew bibles from Damascus to Jerusalem, Israel's national library asked an Israeli court Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 to grant it official custodianship over the manuscripts, a move that is liable to spark a bitter ownership battle over the some of the Syrian Jewish community's most important treasures. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
Photo by: Sebastian Scheiner
In this Oct. 5, 2014 file photo, a library official shows a Jewish manuscript smuggled into Israel from Damascus in a Mossad spy operation in the early 1990s, in Jerusalem. The manuscript is one of the earliest existing complete manuscripts of the Hebrew bible. Two decades after Israeli spies helped whisk eight ancient Hebrew bibles from Damascus to Jerusalem, Israel's national library asked an Israeli court Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 to grant it official custodianship over the manuscripts, a move that is liable to spark a bitter ownership battle over the some of the Syrian Jewish community's most important treasures. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

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