Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Nev., on July 8, 2023.AP Photo/John Locher Israeli authorities are trying to retrieve a collection of antiques that have been stuck in the US. A spokesperson for Donald Trump said Thursday that they would send the ceramic oil lamps back. Trump slammed Jewish voters when presented with the lamps in 2021, a Republican donor told The Wall Street Journal. Former President Donald Trump was apparently displeased with Jewish voters' lackluster electoral support for his 2020 campaign — a grievance he expressed when presented with a collection of priceless Israeli artifacts ahead of a 2021 holiday dinner at Mar-a-Lago, a longtime Republican donor and Israel supporter told The Wall Street Journal.Trump this week agreed to return a collection of ancient Israeli artifacts that have been "stuck" in the US for four years after the country's antiquities authorities started publicly pushing for their retrieval.The Journal on Thursday shed new light on the long, strange tale of a collection of ceramic oil lamps that traveled from Israel to Washington, DC, to California, and Florida over the course of four years.The oil lamps' US journey was spearheaded in 2019 by Saul Fox, a private equity executive and major Jewish-American donor to the Israeli Antiquities Authority, who suggested the agency allow the items to be presented to Trump at a forthcoming White House Hanukkah party to thank the then-president for his support of Israel, according to The Journal.Israel sent the national treasures to the US on the condition that the valuable antiques be returned to their home country within weeks.

 

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