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Amitai Hazan, CEO of auction house Tiroche, at the 2025 auction of Israeli artworks (Courtesy)
June 26, 2026, 4:53 am
Rare works by Israeli artists Rubin, Gutman head to auction valued at $300,000
Tiroche auction house aims high, with sale of long-awaited museum-grade pieces from private collections overseas returning home to a surprisingly bullish local market
By Jessica Steinberg
Images of Ze’ev Jabotinsky's 1938 letter. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)
February 23, 2026, 5:02 pm
Jabotinsky letter revealing plea for funds to save European Jews heads to auction
Revisionist Zionism founder’s missive to finance director warned movement’s ‘success or failure’ hinged on new funding system
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, also known as the Ramchal, is depicted in a wall painting in Acre, Israel. (Yuval Y/Wikimedia Commons)
February 19, 2026, 10:33 am
Letter by famed Jewish mystic sells for nearly $400,000 at auction
Ramchal manuscript was quietly sold by Jewish Theological Seminary during financial crisis; scholar decries transfer of text to private owner as a ‘scandal’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Amy Winehouse performs 'Rehab' during the 2007 MTV Movie Awards Show at Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
January 27, 2026, 6:52 pm
Amy Winehouse’s friends exploited her dad by selling late singer’s items, lawyer says
Court told that two friends of UK Jewish star sold dozens of her possessions worth around $970,000, among them luxury items, after telling parents sale involved ‘a few things’
By AFP
Long-lost painting 'Crucifixion of Jesus Christ' by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, is displayed at the auction house Osenat in Versailles, west of Paris, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
December 1, 2025, 8:47 am
Long-lost Rubens painting depicting crucifixion sells for $2.7 million
Artwork was recently found in Parisian townhouse; was initially thought to be from Rubens workshop rather than painter himself, but authenticity confirmed after scientific analysis
By AP
This image provided by Sotheby's shows Gustav Klimt's 'Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer' (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer), which sold for $236.4 million at auction, November 18, 2025, in New York. (Sotheby's via AP)
November 19, 2025, 8:31 am
Klimt painting that saved its subject from Nazis sold for record price in auction
Elisabeth Lederer, who is immortalized in six-foot portrait, survived Holocaust by telling Nazis that the famed painter was her father
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
The entrance to the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work sets free') is pictured in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 25, 2015, days before the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Russian forces. (Joël Saget / AFP)
November 18, 2025, 3:38 am
German auction house cancels ‘shameless’ sale of concentration camp artifacts
Auction called off after protest from group of Holocaust survivors, which along with Poland’s FM calls for the items to be placed in a museum
By Shira Li Bartov
The name of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz photographed at 'Gleis 17', Track 17, the memorial site for the train transportation from Berlin to the camp, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Jan. 27, 2024 (AP/Markus Schreiber)
November 16, 2025, 7:21 pm
Survivors demand German auction house halt sale of Holocaust artifacts
International Auschwitz Committee says sale of personal letters and Gestapo index cards is ‘a cynical and shameless undertaking’ that exploits persecution for ‘commercial gain’
By AP
Two paintings believed to be by Ambrosius Bosschaert recovered by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation. (Courtesy Monuments Men and Women Foundation via JTA)
September 16, 2025, 10:48 am
Ohio auction house halts sale of ‘unclaimed’ paintings Nazis took from Jewish owner
Art restitution organization, responding to tip-off, researched works by Ambrosius Bosschaert and discovered they belonged to family of German Jewish collector Adolphe Schloss
By Grace Gilson
A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, at Sotheby's, in New York, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
July 17, 2025, 8:36 pm
Martian meteorite sells for record $5.3 million at New York auction
54-pound rock named NWA 16788 is largest ever found on Earth originating from Mars; dinosaur skeleton sells for more than $30 million
By Dave Collins
Nadav Popplewell (Courtesy)
March 20, 2025, 3:00 pm
Tel Aviv store to auction slain hostage Nadav Popplewell’s sci-fi book collection
Green Brothers reports keen interest in library of some 700 volumes owned by British-Israeli abducted to Gaza on Oct. 7 and later murdered; proceeds to go to families of hostages
By ToI Staff
The oldest complete tablet of the Ten Commandments, weighing 115-pounds and approximately 1,500 years old, is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, December 9, 2024. (Richard Drew/AP)
December 19, 2024, 10:14 am
Oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sells for over $5m
Winning bid is far higher than predicted; anonymous buyer will donate Samaritan-linked slab to Israeli institution, while some question its authenticity
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandment is up for auction with Sotheby's. (Sotheby's via JTA)
November 20, 2024, 11:36 am
Ten Commandments tablet, up for auction at Sotheby’s, to come with disclaimer
1,500-year-old Samaritan version of text to be sold with notification that Israel only permitted it to be removed from country on condition it is put on public display
By JTA and ToI Staff
The Shem Tov Bible is due to be auctioned at Sotheby's in September 2024. (Courtesy of Sotheby's)
June 10, 2024, 10:10 am
Sotheby’s to auction Shem Tov Bible scribed by the medieval scholar
The 1312 manuscript will be displayed at the auction house this month and again in September before it is sold
By ToI Staff
Oversized Superman comic book pages displayed on a fence outside of what was once artist Joe Shuster's boyhood home in Cleveland, Ohio in 2013. (AP/Tony Dejak, File)
April 9, 2024, 8:26 pm
Comic featuring Superman’s first appearance sells for $6M
Auction company selling 1938 rare copy hails edition as ‘most important comic ever published’ for creating superhero still used in comic strips and movies today
By AP
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