1 day ago by Stephen Smuts

From the look of this photo, there are some serious excavations going on near the Temple Mount. Leen Ritmeyer has more: Just over a week ago I led a tour through the Western Wall tunnels and saw some very deep excavations between the foundations of buildings which date from the Mamluk period (14th-1 ...

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2 days ago by themiddle

I was going to call this piece “Abbas Plays Poker” but then Khaled Abu Toameh wrote a piece in the J Post called Abbas’s Big Bluff in which he argues that Abbas has called for Palestinian elections now with the knowledge that Hamas won’t participate. Khaled doesn’t quite make the point that this is ...

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3 days ago by Leen Ritmeyer

Todd Bolen’s blog post gives an excellent overview of discoveries related to the Temple Mount. Worth reading! Bookmark to: Hide Sites $$('div.d273').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });

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3 days ago by Todd Bolen

A new exhibit opens on November 11 at the Davidson Center south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. From Arutz-7: Among the artifacts to be displayed next week is a rare collection of 2,000-year-old coins that were burnt during the Great Revolt by the Jews against the Roman occupation, in which the Se ...

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3 days ago by Stephen Smuts

Israel Radio has an interesting archaeological based programme with interviews that can be listened to here. HT: Bible Places here.

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3 days ago by Todd Bolen

Foundation Stone has a fascinating interview with Zachi Zweig, who co-leads the Temple Mount Sifting Project with Gabriel Barkay. It was Zweig who brought public attention to the Muslim dumping of the Temple Mount material many years ago, and his initiative led Barkay to secure a permit for the proj ...

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4 days ago by YMedad

Danny Seidmann, founder of and a legal adviser to the Jerusalem nongovernmental organization Ir Amim, or “City of Nations, has an op-ed on the Temple Mount issue in The Forward. I left this comment there:- Danny, you are so even-handed when you write: "In recent weeks, the site has been the focus of ...

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4 days ago by YMedad

Just received: A very special exhibition opens Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at the Davidson Center in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden. For the first time the general public will be able to be see all of the different kinds of coins that were uncovered in excavations at the foot of the Temple Mou ...

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5 days ago by Stephen Smuts

Gary Beyer has a very good book review of, The Quest: Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, by Leen Ritmeyer, at Associates for Biblical Research. In a sense, this book is the culmination of Leen Ritmeyer’s life and career. Of the April 1984 International Congress of Biblical Archaeology in Jerus ...

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5 days ago by YMedad

The JTA's Leslie Susser, a veteran, comments:- ...There are two parallel battles: One for the Temple Mount, which the Muslims are winning, and one for the city as a whole, where Israel has the upper hand. On the mount, the Muslims have been expanding their religious space, and since 1996 have built ...

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