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Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, in the narrow sense identical with the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of ten years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)