Stolen Talmud tractate
Stolen Talmud tractatePolice Spokesman's Dept.

Police detectives from the Sharet station in Tel Aviv have located a 19th century Talmud Bavli tractate that was stolen from the National Library in Jerusalem years ago, and was considered lost.

The detectives raided a business on Mikunis Street in Tel Aviv, which holds auctions of Judaica items, and found the book there.

The store owner, a man in his 40s, was detained for questioning.

Israel's National Library holds the printed treasures of the Jewish people. It holds over 5 million items, printed and archived.

The library keeps copies of every work printed in Israel, and collects other works that are somehow connected to Israel, to Judaism and to the Middle East, including manuscripts, maps, periodicals and ephemera.