The Jerusalem Police is investigating a suspicious tunnel discovered under the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem. Among other things, it is thought that this tunnel was built to break into the museum for the theft of antiquities. The mouth of the tunnel was discovered in a private home next to the museum. Its length is about thirty meters.
The Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem contains a large collection of exhibits of relics found throughout Eretz Yisrael in the past century. A top official of the Antiquities Authority estimated that it was not actually supposed to serve to break into the museum but the suspicion is being examined nonetheless.
The Jerusalem District Police relayed this past Monday that an East Jerusalem resident reported that a suspicious pit was being dug in his neighbor's yard. The police forces who came to the site discovered a tunnel thirty meters deep. An initial inquiry points to the fact that several months ago some foreigners approached the householder - a solitary old woman living adjacent to the museum - presenting themselves as municipal workers from the Gichon Water Company claiming that they had to dig that pit in order to fix a water leakage, and from then on, they had been coming every day to continue the work.
