Isn't that where the Dead Sea scrolls are? Did I post earlier than my father in law was the first person to translate them? We even had a tiny scrap of them. They are sending some to the Museum of Man in San Diego in 2007. A prof at SDSU will be curating.
Yes, the Shrine of the Book containing the Dead Sea scrolls is at the Israel Museum. An exhibit of the scrolls was in Mobile, AL last year and I missed it, but as luck would have it, an exhibit will be in Charlotte, NC next year and I will make sure not to miss it. The Shrine of the Book was closed when I visited the museum in 2004, and I also didn't get to see it in 1998.