Hebrew Voices #3 – Temple Mount Treasures

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Hebrew Voices #3 – Temple Mount Treasures

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Benjamin Netanyahu: Le ma’an Zion lo ekhesheh, u’l’ma’an Yerushalayim lo eshkhot.

Nehemia: Shalom, this is Nehemia Gordon. I am here with Hebrew Voices at the lab in Jerusalem of the Temple Mount Sifting Project, with the co-director and founder of the project, Zachi Dvira, also known as Zachi Zweig. Shalom, Zachi.

Zachi: Shalom.

Nehemia: This is really an honor to be here with you. This is an amazing project you have. Tell the listeners, what do you do on the Temple Mount Sifting Project?

Zachi: Well, we are trying to learn as much as possible about the past of the Temple Mount by the small archaeological remains that survived the archaeological destruction that took place at the site about 15 years ago.

Nehemia: For me, as a Jew, the Temple Mount is the most important site religiously by faith in the world, and also archaeologically. I did my bachelor’s degree in Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and I consider this to be the most important site in the world. How many archaeological excavations have been carried out on the Temple Mount?

Zachi: Actually, no systematic archaeological excavation has ever taken place on the Temple Mount. There were two minor examinations by British archeologists during the British Mandate period, but that’s all. And it was very limited, and they were not published.