An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel

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An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel

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Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after he hurled works of art to the floor, damaging two second-century Roman statues.

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