IDF guards world’s largest collection of Torah scrolls

400 Torah scrolls are being safeguarded at an IDF military base. Some are 750 years old, written on thicker parchment than today. Many have interesting histories – one is called “The Prisoner”, as it was captured by Egypt in 1973 and “released” in 2000.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/07/19/closed-idf-base-guards-worlds-largest-torah-collection/

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