Getting into the right hands

On July 1, the scrolls, after sensitive negotiations as well as followed by three individuals including the Metropolitan, arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. They had been purchased by Prof. Mazar and the son of Prof. Sukenik, Yigael Yadin, for US$250,000 and delivered to Jerusalem, where they were on exhibit at the Rockefeller Museum.

After the Six-Day War, the scrolls were moved to the Shrine of the Book. The Shrine of the Book, a wing of the Israel Museum close to Givat Ram in Jerusalem, houses the Dead Sea Scrolls.