Guilt-ridden New Yorker returns stolen stone to Israel
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Saturday, June 06, 2009
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A guilt-ridden New Yorker has returned a massive marble stone he took from an excavation site in Occupied Jerusalem's Old City 12 years ago, Israel's Antiquities Authority said on Tuesday. The 21-kilogram piece of 9th century marble column disappeared from an Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) dig in 1997.
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