them back to the museum. The original asking price was US$2 million (the value of the reward offered in the case) but this was negotiated down to US$35,000. Among the returned items was the "Marie Antoinette" and a valuable "Sympathique" clock, also by Breguet. A later search of a warehouse in Israel produced documents that led to safety deposit boxes owned by Na'aman Diller in Israel, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. Police identified the client as Nili Shamrat, an expatriate Israeli who had married Diller in 2003. She told police that, just before her husband's death in 2004, he confessed and advised her to sell the collection. Shamrat was arrested in May 2008, after a house search by Israeli and American investigators found several of the stolen clocks, some rare 18th-century paintings, and catalog cards bearing the name of the clocks and their manufacturers. On November 18, 2008, French and Israeli police officials discovered 43 more stolen timepieces in two bank safes in France. Of the 106 rare timepieces stolen in 1983, 96 were recovered. On April 3, 2010, Shamrat was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and given a five-year suspended sentence for possession of stolen property. Contemporary Arab art In 2008, a group exhibit of contemporary Arab art opened at the Museum, the first show of local Arab art in an Israeli museum and the first to be mounted by an Arab curator. Thirteen Arab artists participated in the show. See also Islamic Museum, Jerusalem List of Israeli museums References External links 1974 establishments in Israel Art museums and galleries in Israel Art museums established in 1974 Decorative arts museums Islamic museums Islam in Jerusalem Museums in Jerusalem Katamon