JERUSALEM ARCHAEOLOGY IN COURT. Again.

Court to hear petition on Silwan digs
By DAN IZENBERG (Jerusalem Post)

The High Court of Justice is due to hand down its decision in the next few days on a request to lift the interim injunction preventing the Antiquities Authority from resuming its excavation of a Herodian water channel in Silwan, outside Jerusalem's Old City.

In March, the court issued the injunction at the request of six Palestinian families, who charged that the authority was excavating underneath their homes.

The excavation is not a new archeological discovery. The site is a tunnel or channel located about six meters below the surface, and archeologists believe it was built by King Herod. ...

The case is quite a knot of claims and counter-claims.