TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: The Forward has an article on the salvage operation on the Temple Mount materials that were illictly dug by the WAQF. The project is still in very urgent need of funding.

Troubles Mount for Effort To Rescue Temple Artifacts
By Eric J. Greenberg
May 27, 2005

Israeli archaeologists are threatening to pull the plug on a historic effort to rescue invaluable artifacts from Judaism's ancient First and Second Temples because the project has run out of money.

Organizers and supporters of the rescue project are blaming the Israeli government for failing to fund the initiative, which marks the first time in history that archaeologists have been able to analyze materials dug up from the only excavation of the Temple Mount � Judaism's holiest site and the third holiest site in Islam. During construction of a new mosque at the holy site six years ago, the Islamic Trust in charge of the Temple Mount dumped the artifacts � mixed in with 10,000 tons of rubble � at a Jerusalem garbage facility.

Archaeologists told the Forward that if they cannot quickly raise $60,000, the effort will be shelved � with 80% of the work still to be done � and potentially invaluable relics will be reburied ...