US foundation digs deep to fund Israel’s archaeology library | The Art Newspaper

Model of the National Campus for the Archaeology
of Israel. Photo: Hanay CC BY-SA 3.0
Israel will soon have the largest archaeological library in the Middle East, thanks to a gift from the Cleveland-based Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. The library is part of the $80m Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel, currently under construction near the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, which will eventually house more than two million artefacts and 15,000 fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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